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Re: TransportAzumah may need to obtain city franchise to operate private bus service? |
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Posted by CapitalCruiser on Tue Jun 29 11:35:21 2010, in response to Re: TransportAzumah may need to obtain city franchise to operate private bus service?, posted by Scrabbleship on Tue Jun 29 08:59:16 2010. CDTA is married to Upstate Transit, pumping them with runs and money and buses and they won't let anyone else in on the deal. Shoot, I'll bet you the new garage they plan on building in Saratoga will benefit Upstate a great deal and I'll bet they end up runing all the Saratoga buses in the future. They already run the NX, along with the shuttle out on 155, 20Mall and Central Ave. I enquired about CDTA putting services up for bid and they pretty much laughed at me saying they don't put runs up for bid, so basically, Upstate get's it all. I remember when the old Troy 5th Ave operated the Rural buses (Hoosick Falls and Berlin), Harvey Dubb operated the Albany county rural buses, and Upstate Operated the Saratoga county buses after CDtA gave up the Northway Flyer service. They all were given CDTA buses and operating money and made a decent living off those route, then CDTA came in, took them back, screwed them all up and ending up terrorizing the riders and eventually disbanded alot of the services. Look at the Hoosick Falls route, 2 companies operated it and there basically no advertisement for the service which could be a GOLD MINE if it were marketed the right way. Shoot, CDTA once gave Yankee Trails 2 new buses and no money to keep them up, and they never got buses again, even tho they bought Upstate 15 MCI's and 2 Gillig Hybrids! See where I'm going with this? Upstate is in CDTA's pocket and no one else can have a piece of the pie! Watch out, because I'm planning something that knock their socks off, very soon! |
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