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.
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...
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...
About 10 days ago, local elected officials sent out an email blast announcing that the city's Department of Transportation and the NYPD had finally begun enforcing a two-year-old state law meant to regulate the intercity bus industry. So how's...
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...
Local elected officials are still holding out hope that an intercity bus law signed by Governor Cuomo two years ago this month will finally be implemented 11 days from now. Lower East Side and Chinatown residents, increasingly agitated by...
About a month ago, we told you about "Save LES Streets," a website launched by local residents fed up with the intercity bus glut in their neighborhood. They've been tracking bus companies roaming the streets of the Lower East...
Kendall Danielle Jones, one of 19 people arrested in the largest gun bust in New York City history, has pleaded guilty to three felony charges and will be going to prison for four years.
Last summer, authorities announced the results...
