Judge puts the brakes on bus company
A federal judge has ordered a Pennsylvania-based bus company to stop operations after an Albany, New York, TV station reported that the bus line had continued service in violation of a U.S. Department of Transportation order.
The DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on December 23 ordered Double Happyness Travel to shut down after an inspection found multiple violations, including vehicle maintenance and drug and alcohol testing rules.
The safety agency issued a January 5 cease-and-desist order against Double Happyness after federal investigators and state police discovered that the company still was operating and selling tickets in violation of the order in December.
But over the past two weeks, CNN affiliate WRGB-TV reported the company was still operating trips from Albany to New York City.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/us/bus-safety-violations/index.html
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Well, New Englanders and New Yorkers are quite familiar with the comically calamitous ineptitude of Fung Wah, which provides service back and forth between New York and Boston, as well as Providence. Since about 2005, Fung Wah has made headlines with startling frequency owing to a series of literally unbelievable mishaps; and yet, here’s this reviewer from Slate claiming that the cheapo ticket prices are “worth the risk,” as in worth the risk of injury or death.
In early 2007, it seemed like the Boston traffic reports covered I-93, Storrow Drive, 128, and where Fung Wah crashed.....
