By Yevgeny Shrago
Anyone who has ever needed to get quickly and cheaply (if not safely) from New York to just about anywhere on the East Coast should shed at least one tear today, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down 26 bus lines today, most of which operated out of New York and Philadelphia’s Chinatowns (hence the affectionate title “Chinatown bus”). The carriers were shut down for a variety of serious problems including overworked, improperly licensed drivers and failure to properly repair the buses. Despite the New York Times’s intimations that passengers would be pushed to Greyhound, several of the larger lines, such as Fung Wah, appear to be unaffected by the shutdown.
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