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Blaise Pascal launched the first public bus transportation line in 1662, and these "buses: were house drawn carriages.
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The first ever bus transportation company was created in the United Kingdom by John Greenwood.
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In 1826 the omnibus was created as one of the first ever public transportation uses.
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The first school bus was invented in 1827, by George Shillibeer, and it was a school bus for the Quaker school in Abney Park.
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The house car was the next evolution of the bus transportation revolution.
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The cable car was the third step to the evolution to the modern bus we know today.
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The street car was a further advancement to the cable car that was already invented previously
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The first motorized bus was made in 1895, and it was produced by the car company, Mercedes-Benz,.
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The first rapid transit bus system was created in 1895.
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The first motorized bus service was founded in 1909.
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Claudette Colvin was the first ever to hold a boycott on a public bus by not giving up her seat to a white man.
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The Freedom Riders were civil rights activist who rode buses to push integration of public buses in the southern state during the civil right movement.
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The Bristol Bus Boycott was a boycott that was in England against the Bristol Omnibus Company for not employing black and asians.
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The first ever woman bus driver in Jamaica was Dorothy Ebanks-Rowe. (She became a bus driver in 1969)
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One famous moment that has happened on a public bus is the refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her set to a white male.
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The first official bus that was intended for public transportation.
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On November 13, 1996 the United States Supreme Court held a hearing that resulted in the integrating of public buses.
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The First Student bus company was created in 1999
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One of the first bus transportation systems called the rainbow rapid transit transportation.
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The first ever woman bus driver was Vankadarath Saritha. She was hired to help the India's women population feel safer on public buses.
