Why Join MBS

Let us name the reasons and benefits of membership:

1) The Members. The biggest asset of MBS are our members. MBS members are involved in various subsidiary activities depending on their personal interests. Our members are drawn from the urban and intercity transit operations, transportation planning and administration and just folks enthusiastic about all forms of bus transportation. It is these people who can enhance your knowledge. The friendships you make in the Society can last a lifetime. Many of our members are employed in the transportation industry; some of them gained employment through member contacts while others worked in the business before becoming members.

2) Motor Coach Age Magazine. MBS’s magazine since 1967 specializes in well-documented histories and current developments of city transit and intercity bus operations.  Over the years MCA has also published profiles of the major and minor bus manufacturers from North America. Each feature Motor Coach Age article includes early-day and contemporary photo coverage, maps, rosters, service tables and corporate data. In major articles much of the street railway history is of necessity and streetcar track maps are often included.  The current scene is not overlooked with special attention to emerging light rail/bus intermodal schemes.

3) MBS Excursions and Conventions. MBS trips range from one-day excursions conducted by our Metropolitan New York Bus Committee concentrated on operators in a single geographic area in the tri-state New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania region to four-day weekend extravaganzas geographically dispersed across the U.S. and Canada.  Daytime convention activities include visits to as many of the bus and transit operators near the convention site that can be toured in two to three days. Evening convention activities typically include a membership meeting, a swap meet followed by a multi-media presentation featuring buses past and present from the convention area. Convention sites have ranged from Miami, FL to Boston, MA in the east to San Diego to Seattle in the west. Canadian conventions have been held in Quebec City, Montreal, the Greater Toronto region and Vancouver. MBS has conducted international trips to the United Kingdom and France in 2013 and 2019, respectively.