buses
America's 'Expanding Girth' Threatens Vital Transportation Systems
Hamilton Nolan · 03/21/11 09:26AMIs This School Bus Driver Fearless or Just an Idiot?
Matt Cherette · 01/23/11 09:58PMDon't try this at home! Actually, don't try it anywhere—ever. Anyway, here's a four-minute video of a Nicaraguan school bus driver literally fording a raging river. Twice! (The bus is full, by the way.) Brave? Idiot? Brave idiot?
Snow Plow Hits a Bus and Scares the Crap Out of Passengers
Preksha Kumar · 01/21/11 02:05PMThese passengers experienced a nasty shock when a snow plow accidentally hit their bus from behind, sending it 20 feet forward. Fortunately, there was CCTV footage of the accident in multiple angles. Thankfully no one was seriously injured.
Swearing on Milwaukee Buses Will Cost You $500
Max Read · 12/27/10 02:38AMThis Bus Driver Can Write and Drive at the Same Time
Jeff Neumann · 12/18/10 10:39AMDrunk Woman Interviewed Moments After Crashing Into a School Bus
Matt Cherette · 11/15/10 03:34PMOn Friday, Elizabeth Crull was arrested for DUI after crashing her car into a school bus in Orlando, Florida. Moments after the crash, Crull gave an... enlightening (read: still drunk) interview to a local news crew. Watch—and laugh—inside.
Reporters 'Steal' Two Buses to Show How Easy It Is to Steal a Bus
Adrian Chen · 09/06/10 04:03PMNew York's Greatest Train Thief Arrested Driving a Trailways Bus
Jeff Neumann · 09/01/10 05:33AMRomantic Greyhound Bus Driver Steals $600,000 Bus to Go See His Girlfriend
Richard Lawson · 06/16/10 05:15PMGaza or Bus
Max Read · 06/02/10 02:30AMNew York Bus Drivers Constantly Being Spat Upon
Max Read · 05/25/10 01:29AMYour Commute Is About to Get Much, Much Worse
cityfile · 12/16/09 09:36AMThe MTA has passed its "doomsday budget" this morning and a "punishing slate of service cuts" will now follow as the agency looks to make up for a $400 million shortfall in its budget. (Also coming soon: even more painfully crowded subways.) But considering your Metrocard will soon sport the word "Optimism" on the back, you should have no problem keeping up a positive attitude, right? [NYT, NY1, previously]
MTA Targets Kids, the Disabled
cityfile · 12/14/09 08:56AMHope you don't rely on the W or Z trains to get to work. As part of the MTA's effort to make up for the $400 million gap in its budget, it's proposing eliminating both those lines, as well as reducing subway service at off-peak hours, eliminating discounts for the disabled, and ripping the free bus passes that are given to city schoolchildren out of their tiny hands. [NYT]
The MTA Gets Its Priorities in Order
cityfile · 12/08/09 03:06PMThe MTA may be forced to make deep cuts to bus and subway service next year as it contends with an estimated $343 million budget gap. But have you been on one of those super-advanced "experimental turbine hybrid" buses that the MTA is thinking about importing from New Zealand? They're as "quiet as a tomb" and bus drivers absolutely adore them! So at least someone is going to end up happy! [MyFoxNY, NYT]
Palin Not Actually Taking Tacky Bus on Tacky Book Tour
Pareene · 11/30/09 12:45PMJust Pretend the Bus Driver Is Your Chauffeur
Hamilton Nolan · 06/19/09 11:31AMNew Bus Ads: Much Brighter, Much More Annoying
cityfile · 05/21/09 02:09PMVictimized Hamptons-Goers Uptown Bemoan Their Sorry Plight
balk · 03/23/07 09:42AMNot everyone is pleased by the news that the Hampton Jitney will be making stop(s?) in Brooklyn this spring. Upper West Siders, usually a restrained, voiceless group, are complaining that they lack similar service, even though they live in Manhattan. The downtrodden residents of the better borough sing of their suffering.
Brooklynites Will Bring Their Comical Accents, Foul Habits To Delightful Hamptons Bus
Balk · 03/21/07 12:43PMArise, ye lowly denizens of Brooklyn, and avail yourselves of the comfort of the Hampton Jitney. Yes, even though thee are of lowly, outer-borough stock, the ceaseless efforts of Marty Markowitz, your portly champion, have borne fruit: Come the first note of green in the meadow, the fancy carriage formerly reserved for the lords and ladies of Manhattan will deign to enter your foul-smelling territory (possibly even at multiple stops) and transport you to your jobs as scullery maids to the gentry of the East End and South Fork. Be sure to wear shoes; this ain't no LIRR.