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Posted by GOLD_12th on Sun Jun 27 21:44:24 2010 As you may have heard, TransportAzumah has apparently is taking over some of eliminated MTA express routes like: QM22 (http://qm22express.forumup.com/forum-2-qm22express.html), X25, X26, X29 and X90 (source: http://www.transportazumah.com/services).....After Cuts, MTA Plans Helping Hand New York City Transit planned to send employees around the city on Monday to monitor the bus and subway service cuts that go into effect and give directions to confused passengers. In addition, volunteers for the Straphangers Campaign, a transit advocacy group, are set to survey bus riders to see how they're coping with the cuts. "I think it would be optimistic to say that there won't be a little confusion on the first few days," said Charles Seaton, a New York City Transit spokesman. But, he said, "New York subway and bus riders are extremely savvy and it won't take them long to get accustomed to the new services." Dozens of bus lines are being re-routed and others cut altogether. Two subway lines—the W and the V—are also being cut, with other trains to take over most of their routes. Google Inc.'s popular transit directions service—which is displayed prominently on the MTA's website—had yet to be updated with the new routes Sunday afternoon. A rider using the service to look for directions from Middle Village, in Queens, to Lower Manhattan for Monday afternoon was directed to the M train. But if she followed the website, the passenger would find herself riding up Sixth Avenue, along the V train route being taken over by the M. On some screens, the website warned that it was using out-of-date timetables and hoped to have the problem fixed by the end of June. A Google spokeswoman said Thursday that a "slight delay" was possible between when the service cuts went into effect and when the maps were updated because of the "complexity of the data involved in these updates, given the size and scope of MTA's service." On Sunday, TransportAzumah, a private bus operator with plans to start service Monday along some express routes being cut by the MTA, said it wouldn't comply with an order from the city's Department of Transportation that it cease operations. "The Department of Transportation doesn't understand state regulations and we're running tomorrow," the company's owner, Joel Azumah, said. The city has asked the company to submit documentation to show why it doesn't need to obtain a city franchise to operate private bus service. Mr. Azumah said he's not subject to city regulations because his passengers will be required to join a riders' club and his buses aren't open to the public. "We're not opposed to private service, but buses operating on our streets need to go through the process the right way and explain their routes, business plan, information on their bus fleet," a city official familiar with the matter said. Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704212804575333282522727748.html |
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