CHEAP BUSES * USA - Fung Wah bus won't blow up
Government officials insist that the buses are, in fact, safe
New York,NY,USA -NYU Washington Square News, by Lindsey Thomas & Venus Tang -5 Feb 2008: -- Would you ride on a bus that has a track record of catching fire on the road? What if doing so saved you serious cash?... At $15 a ticket to any major northeastern city, low-cost buses running out of Chinatown such as Lucky Star, Fung Wah and Apex are hard to pass up. Despite rumors that these buses strand passengers, blow up, break down and catch fire, government officials insist that they are, in fact, safe... The safety performance of Chinatown buses "is no worse or no better than the traditional terminal-to-terminal motorcoach carriers," said Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation... Frank Torres, a porter for various bus companies in Chinatown including Lucky Star, said that buses are subject to daily inspections and spot checks every few months. He said that such checks are random... Despite these measures, a few well-publicized accidents involving Fung Wah buses have made the company synonymous with cheap but dangerous transportation. In 2005 a Fung Wah bus burst into flames in Connecticut, and in 2006, another Fung Wah bus flipped over on a Boston highway. No one was killed in either incident... Torres mentioned rumors of hydrogen bombs in the engines of the buses...(Video from YouTube, by demintel -January 27, 2007: "Boston - New York Chinatown bus roadtrip")
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