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Re: New Jersey DOT chief: Buses should make more stops in NYC |
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Posted by NJT Oradell on Sat May 12 12:24:11 2012, in response to Re: New Jersey DOT chief: Buses should make more stops in NYC, posted by andy on Fri May 11 13:30:51 2012. Those mini buses are legal enough to operate without penalty, although various police departments will stop and inspect them for defects, frequently putting them out of service. As for skimming NJT passengers, that's exactly what they do. There are NJT lines now that carry a small fraction of the passengers they carried before the mini's showed up.But they are a little cheaper and they run more often, and they have vehicle to vehicle communications to warn each other where the NJT buses are, so people will ride them, some even preferring them to the buses. In the beginning they used 15 passenger vans, but as they became more popular they have gotten bigger and bigger vehicles. In some places they use full size buses, albeit not heavy duty transit buses. When NJT could have eliminated them legally years ago, they lacked the knowledge and fortitude to do so. But now they are legally permitted to operate, it's almost impossible to get rid of them. And in this deregulated age, they are allowed to do so, they need only declare what their routes are. NYC has a similar problem in places. |
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