The Origins of Public Transit #daypass

In the early 1800s, a man named Stannislas Bowri owned a flower mill right here in Nance at number five. He took advantage of the steam from his steam engines to create a public bath right here at number seven. But he had a problem. How were people going to get to and from his public bath? So he created a horse and carriage route that went from Plastic Commerce to here to his public bath. But he soon found that people were taking his bus for general transportation. The bus became known as the Omni Bus, Latin for everyone. And in 1826, he started the world's first public transit company right here in N. And this is the street they named after him. People may tell you that the first public transit in the world was in Paris. Those people would be wrong. There was a fixed horse and carriage route in Paris in 1662. Importantly, it wasn't available to the public. For example, servants and soldiers weren't allowed to use it. So that route was missing the most important part of public transit and that's the public