Original sentence: In 1896, Erie Electric Motor Co absorbed the Erie, Reed Park & Lakeside Street Railway.In 1967, it became the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority.It became the Buffalo and Erie Railway Company on September 5, 1924.On December 24, 1906, the Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction Company was formed through the consolidation of the Erie Electric Motor Co; the Hamburg Railway; the Buffalo, Dunkirk and Western; the Dunkirk and Fredonia; and the Lake Erie Fast Line.On October 8, 1888, the Erie Electric Motor Company took control of the Erie City Passenger R'y Co.The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority first became a public transit system in Erie, Pennsylvania on March 1, 1897 under the name of the Erie City Passenger Railway Company.The streetcars were put out of service in 1935, at which time the Erie Coach Company began to run transit buses
Edited sentence: On December 24, 1906, the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company took control of the Erie Electric Motor Company and completed its  line to Buffalo, New York in 1909.On October 8, 1888, the Erie Electric Motor Company took control of the Erie City Passenger Railway.The Buffalo and Lake Erie was reorganized into the Buffalo and Erie Railway Company on September 5, 1924 and the streetcar system in Erie was split from the Buffalo and Erie to form the Erie Railways Company.The Conneaut and Erie Railway Traction Company was formed in 1903 and ran trolleys to east of the city.The city and county took over the Erie Coach Company and formed the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority on September 20, 1966.The first public transportation system in Erie was establishedon March 1, 1897 as the Erie City Passenger Railway Company.The streetcars were put out of service in 1935.Unable to expanded to invest in an expansion of the streetcar system, four Yellow Coach "Z"'s were acquired and were operated by the Erie Coach Company, a newly formed subsidiary of the Erie Railways Company in 1925.When the Conneaut and Erie was abandoned on September 16, 1922, the West Ridge Transportation Company was started the next year to run buses along the abandoned trolley route