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31.3.16
TRIBUTE TO CHINATOWN BUSES * USA
* New York - Artists pay tribute to no-frills Chinatown Bus, discomforts and all
-- When I was a college student in Boston, in the mid-2000s, I didn't have a whole lot of money. But for the price of a movie ticket, I could catchthe Chinatown bus down to New York City. It was a fast, cheap adventure... These days, thousands of people travel up and down the northeast corridor on services like MegaBus and BoltBus. Butthe Chinatown bus was the original budget bus service. It started in the late 1990s as a service for the Chinese-American community, and became popular with students and others looking for a thrifty ride... Now, a Queens-based activist arts organization called Flux Factory is celebratingthe Chinatown buswith a series of on-board performances that pay tribute to the often-arduous journey...
(Photo by Bryan Chang/Fung Wah Biennial - The Fung Wah Biennial celebrates the now-defunct Chinatown bus service. For her performance piece, Sunita Prasad crowdsurfed around the bus) -- NY, USA - NPR org, by PIEN HUANG - 29 March 2016
Government officialsinsist 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 asLucky Star, Fung Wahand Apexare 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," saidDuane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier SafetyAdministration, a division of theU.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 aFung Wah busburst into flames in Connecticut, and in 2006, another Fung Wah busflipped over on a Boston highway.No one was killed in either incident...Torresmentioned rumors of hydrogen bombs in the engines of the buses...(Video from YouTube, by demintel -January 27, 2007: "Boston - New York Chinatown bus roadtrip")
