[1] A number of streetcar and electric utility companies were acquired during the intervening years, building up a large system in the Naugatuck Valley and surrounding region.
When the New Haven entered receivership, the Connecticut Company leases were cancelled in 1936 for lack of payment.
A number of under-performing bus routes were discontinued over the years until all service was suspended in 1972.
A former Milford CT school and charter bus company- Cross Country Coach, purchased a few of CR & L's older buses to operate a regional route between Norwalk, Bridgeport, and New Haven.
This was a restoration of two former CR & L routes, which commenced in 1973 and continued until Cross Country Coach ceased operations in the early 1980s.