New York Buses

The Good, the Bad and the Overbearing

Rob Taub | Posted 04.09.2012

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Rob Taub

I have always attracted bullies and overbearing people, maybe because I've never been afraid to do battle with them. I ride buses in New York City on a daily basis, and it seems to be a setting that attracts overbearing people, perhaps because everyone is trapped with them.

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Feds Shutter Chinatown Bus Co. For Safety Violations

AP | Posted 12.29.2011

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PHILADELPHIA -- Concerns over vehicle and driver safety led federal regulators to shut down a bus company that took passengers from several cities to ...

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Attacks On NYC Subway Workers And Bus Drivers On The Rise

Posted 01.01.2012

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Bad news from the underground: coinciding with a 17 percent rise in subway crime, the number of attacks on subway workers has increased by 16 percent ...

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MTA Bus Service: Lots of Passengers, Limited Efficiency

Charles Brecher | Posted 07.18.2011

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Charles Brecher

The MTA's buses handle more than 2.6 million passenger trips each day, yet there's a lot of room for improvement in the efficiency of the MTA's bus operations.

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Racy Vodka Ads Pulled From Buses

Posted 05.25.2011

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You can't blame Georgi for trying to reach their target demographic. But evidently the MTA can. MTA officials recently decided to remove Georgi Vodka...

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Transit Systems Are Turning To Hybrid Buses

nytimes.com | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Transit systems from New York to Taipei, and from Ames, Iowa, to Ann Arbor, Mich., are adding hybrid buses at a rapid clip. New York, by far, has the ...

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Free Crosstown Buses Proposed By Bloomberg

New York Times | Sewell Chan and Michael Barbaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Manhattan's notoriously slow crosstown buses �" like the M34, M42 and M50 �" move at such a snail's pace that the Metropolitan Transportation Auth...

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