Dilapidation - USA - New buses can't roll
Thousands ride dilapidated vehicles while newer ones go unused at MTA depots due to a stall in finalizing agreement
Long Island,NY,USA -Newsday, by JOSHUA ROBIN -Oct 24, 2005: -- While thousands of Queens commuters are forced to ride beat-up buses on private bus lines, the MTA has 100 buses stored in depots in College Point and Eastchester in the Bronx, including 30 new models, officials confirmed last week... Why aren't they carrying passengers? The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Bloomberg administration officials offered several explanations... MTA officials said that the agency doesn't have "responsibility" for commuters not served by MTA routes - and is barred under state law from letting the private companies use the vehicles... "The reality is we don't have responsibility for those companies yet," Thomas J. Savage, president of the MTA Bus Co., said in an interview last week...
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