FirstGroup

FirstGroup plc is a Scottish transport company operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Canada, USA, and from 2009 also in Denmark, with headquarters in Aberdeen.

In February 2007 FirstGroup agreed to buy the US-based firm Laidlaw, an operator of inter-city coaches and yellow school buses across North America, for £1.9 billion (US$3.7 billion). This also gave them a controlling stake in Greyhound USA, the largest bus operator in North America. The Greyhound name and the names of Canadian subsidiaries of Greyhound Canada were retained, and all other Laidlaw-owned services in the United States and Canada were rebranded under the First or Greyhound names, except for Voyageur Colonial and Grey Goose in Canada.

First Bus

• First Aberdeen
• First Berkshire & The Thames Valley
• First Bradford
• First Bristol, Bath and the West
• First Calderdale and Hubbersfield
• First Chester & Wirral
• First Devon & Cornwall
• First Dorset
• First Eastern Counties
• First Essex
• First Greater Glasgow
• First Manchester
• First Hampshire
• First Leeds
• First Leicester
• First London
• First Northampton
• First South & West Wales
• First South East and Central Scotland
• First South Yorkshire
• First Staffordshire & South Cheshire
• First Worcestershire and Herefordshire
• First York

Greyhound

• Greyhound Canada

• Grey Goose Lines
• Vancouver Island Coach Lines
• Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines

• Greyhound UK
• Greyhound USA

First Student Canada

First Student Canada, a subsidiary of the UK company FirstGroup, is a major provider of school bus services as well as being a public transit system operator. The company provides services in Canada comparable to those delivered by sister companies First Transit and First Student in the United States.

The component parts of the Canadian operation were formerly:

• Briggs Bus Lines - Edmonton, AB
• Cardinal Coach Lines - Calgary, AB
• FirstBus Canada
• King Transportation Ltd.
• Laidlaw Education Services
• Langdon's Coach Lines - King City, ON

First Transit

First Transit is subsidiary of FirstGroup plc, that operates transit and shuttle operations across the United States. First Transit operations include:

• Capital Area Transit System - Baton Rouge, LA
• Some buses of the Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses (AMA) - San Juan, PR
• Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority/University of Texas Shuttle - Austin, TX
• Chemung County Transit System (CCTS) - Chemung County, NY
• Connecticut Transit (CT Transit) - Hartford, New Haven & Stamford, CT
• CrimsonRide - University of Alabama
• DC Circulator - Washington, DC
• Dutchess County Mass Transit - Poughkeepsie, N.Y
• Estuary Transit District - Old Saybrook, CT
• Georgetown Metro Connection - Washington, DC
• Greater Lynchburg Transit Company (GLTC) - Lynchburg, VA
• Some buses of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) - Los Angeles County, CA
• Lorain County Transit - Lorain County, OH
• Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority - Charleroi, PA
• Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) - Milwaukee, WI
• Monroe Transit System (MTS) - Monroe, OH
• Nashville International Airport shuttle - Nashville, TN
• New Jersey Transit (NJT) Region 5 - New Jersey
• Pasadena Area Rapid Transit System (ARTS) - Pasadena, CA
• Philadelphia International Airport shuttle - Philadelphia, PA
• Santa Maria Area Transit (SMAT) - Santa Maria, CA
• Savannah College of Art and Design shuttle - Cincinatti, OH
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Paratransit - Philadelphia, PA
• Texas State University shuttle
• UB Stampede - University of Buffalo shuttle
• University of Minnesota Campus Shuttle
• Valley Metro - Phoenix, AZ

References

• Wikipedia - FirstGroup
• Wikipedia - First Student Canada