bus battles

On Tuesday evening, Community Board 3's transportation committee will consider an application from an additional bus operator seeking to use a curbside location at 59 Canal St., between Allen and Orchard streets. If approved, the company, LX Transportation LLC,...

A tour bus crashed early this morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, killing 5 people and sending 60 others to area hospitals. The company running the New York-Ohio discount service operates from a curbside...

After a deadly intercity bus crash in Queens last month, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to fully implement a bus safety ratings system.

Community Board 3's transportation committee last week approved a strongly worded resolution in response to a federal lawsuit by Yep Tours, Inc. against the City of New York.

Federal lawsuit could threaten state law.

There's a new development in the long, strange battle between Yep Tours, a Chinatown bus operator, and the Lower East Side community.

Earlier this week, city officials finally succeeded in putting some teeth in the state's intercity bus law. This was the scene on Pike Street Wednesday evening.

It will soon be up to the city's Department of Transportation to decide whether Yep Tours' bad behavior on the Lower East Side will be rewarded.

Community organizers have started an online petition in their campaign to stop Yep Tours, a rogue Chinatown bus company, from obtaining a permit at 2 Pike St.

More trouble for Focus Travel/Yep Tours. The Chinatown bus company faces new questions this morning after a driver was arrested for suspected DUI  in Pennsylvania. On Saturday evening, the bus was traveling from Philadelphia to Manhattan's Chinatown on I-95. According...