The president of Jamaica Buses was Jerome Cooper.

In 1933, the City of New York granted a bus franchise service to Jamaica Buses.

Green stockholders acquired several other companies that continued to operate independently: Command Bus Company, Triboro Coach Corporation, and Jamaica Buses.

"The agreement has most of the qualifications we were looking for," said John Duff, a driver with Jamaica Buses.

While local M.T.A. buses kept pulling in and out, a crowd of commuters had to wait nearly half an hour before their coach, from Jamaica Buses, showed up.

But there have been no approvals, except for one from Jamaica Buses, which will overhaul 14 vehicles at a cost of about $25,000 a bus.

But at Jamaica Bus, the average bus is nearly 12 years old, while the average age at Green Bus is more than 10 years, city officials said.

Jamaica Buses operates six local routes and one express route, while Triboro runs 13 local routes and six express routes.

"The buses didn't go out this morning," said Jerome Cooper, who is president of Jamaica Buses and chairman at Triboro Coach, which are jointly owned.

The companies, Jamaica Buses, Triboro Coach and the Queens Surface Corporation, while private, are subsidized by the city and state.