Greyhound Now Proposing Pike Street Median for Yo! Bus

A reasonable choice, in my view as it is in a more commercial area and on a main thoroughfare. Also, the use of a median, rather than a sidewalk, is brilliant.

A key goal of the new 2012 NYS bus legislation was to stop the ‘wild west’ Chinatown bus situation. But I contend that unless there is strict continuous on-the-ground NYCDOT enforcement, the Chinatown bus craziness will simply continue.

This concerns me greatly because I witnessed the almost complete lack of enforcement following the shutdown of the Chinatown companies last June. I spoke to some NYCDOT reps on Canal Street a few days after the shutdown and they said that enforcement would continue and be strong. But no sooner had NYCDOT stopped showing up that week, there was a sudden proliferation of new fly-by-night Chinatown bus companies emerging on Canal Street, Allen, and East Broadway. Perhaps some of them were the shutdown companies under new names? Some of the bus companies used the cover of darkness by operating only at night on Allen and Canal Streets.

I would hate to see a situation where the area is even more saturated by buses because there will be the new, legal permanent curbside bus stops, plus the ever-illegal Chinatown bus companies crowding the LES’ streets.I