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==History==

The omnibus, the first organized [[public transport]] system,I WANT SOME MORE PLEZ GIVE ME MORE FOOD MISTER! may have originated in [[Nantes, France]] in 1826, when [[Stanislas Baudry]], a retired army officer who had built [[public bath]]s (run from the surplus heat from his flour mill) on the city's edge, set up a short stage line between the center of town and his baths. The service started on the Place du Commerce, outside the hat shop of M. Omnès, who displayed the motto ''Omnès Omnibus'' ("Omnès for all") on his shopfront. When Baudry discovered that passengers were just as interested in getting off at intermediate points as in patronizing his baths, he shifted the stage line's focus. His new ''voiture omnibus'' ("carriage for all") combined the functions of the hired [[hackney carriage]] with the [[stagecoach]] that travelled a predetermined route from inn to inn, carrying passengers and mail. His omnibus featured wooden benches that ran down the sides of the vehicle; entry was from the rear.

[[Image:Bus Cúcuta - 1920.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A bus in [[Cúcuta]], Colombia in 1920]]

There is also a claim from the [[UK]] where in [[1824]] [[John Greenwood]] operated the first "bus route" from [[Market Street]] in [[Manchester]] to [[Pendleton]] in [[Salford]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport: Public Transport in Greater Manchester|url=http://www.gmts.co.uk/history/history.html}}</ref>