bus battles

CityLab (a publication of The Atlantic) takes a look at a new study showing that the intercity ("Chinatown") bus business is once again booming. More about that in a moment. Within the story there's a tidbit of special interest locally.

It's apparent to just about everyone that state legislation enacted several years ago to tame the intercity bus industry is not having the desired impact. So tomorrow night, Community Board 3 is convening an Intercity Bus Town Hall. Here's...

Community Board 3 took a stand last night against a new permit for a  bus company operating illegally from 125 East Broadway. Earlier this month, the board's transportation committee signaled its support for an application from GD Tour Inc. For...

Members of SPaCE, a Lower East Side block association, are telling city officials that the time has come to face facts: efforts to regulate the intercity bus industry have failed. In a letter to a wide variety of elected...

What do we have here? On the left, that's a city bus attempting to pull into a regular MTA bus stop in front of 125 East Broadway. On the right, you have an intercity bus, operated by GD Tour...

The city's Department of Transportation (DOT) has denied an application from Yep Tours, an intercity bus company, for a designated bus stop at 132 Madison St. Community Board 3 was notified of the decision by Luis Sanchez, DOT's Lower...

A couple of weeks ago we heard from State Sen. Daniel Squadron, who told us his office had finally persuaded the city's 311 supervisors to make it easier for residents to file complaints about intercity buses. Local elected officials had...

We've all seen those big intercity buses trying to round tight corners -- sometimes successfully and sometimes not. This morning, the driver of a white Mercedes found out the hard way what happens when you get caught on the...

The New York Post is reporting this morning that the New York State Attorney General and the NYPD have busted an illegal gun ring that used Chinatown buses to transport firearms from Florida: Investigators... seized 70 automatic pistols and revolvers...

Last month, local elected officials put out a press release asserting that the city's Department of Transportation and the NYPD had agreed to begin enforcing New York's two-year old intercity bus law by today, August 15. This afternoon the...