Katie Johnston - Boston Globe
Federal regulators have denied Fung Wah’s request to resume operations nearly a year after the Boston bus company was shut down for significant safety violations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate bus travel, provided few details of why it rejected the application from Fung Wah Bus Transportation Inc., simply saying, “The company is not willing or able to comply with the safety standards we require to protect passengers, drivers, and the motoring public.” A lawyer representing Fung Wah said the carrier is appealing the decision. “Fung Wah is ready, willing, and able to get back on the road, and we’re confident that we’ll prevail in our appeal,” said Alexander Linzer of the New York firm Freeman Lewis LLC. The Jan. 24 order rejecting Fung Wah’s request does not list specific failings in the company’s application, other than to note that the carrier applied to resume operations multiple times, “in an apparent attempt to avoid FMCSA’s passenger carrier vetting process.” Carriers that are shut down must reapply for authority to operate and are subject to more scrutiny than a new company trying to launch interstate bus service.
Federal regulators have denied Fung Wah’s request to resume operations nearly a year after the Boston bus company was shut down for significant safety violations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate bus travel, provided few details of why it rejected the application from Fung Wah Bus Transportation Inc., simply saying, “The company is not willing or able to comply with the safety standards we require to protect passengers, drivers, and the motoring public.” A lawyer representing Fung Wah said the carrier is appealing the decision. “Fung Wah is ready, willing, and able to get back on the road, and we’re confident that we’ll prevail in our appeal,” said Alexander Linzer of the New York firm Freeman Lewis LLC. The Jan. 24 order rejecting Fung Wah’s request does not list specific failings in the company’s application, other than to note that the carrier applied to resume operations multiple times, “in an apparent attempt to avoid FMCSA’s passenger carrier vetting process.” Carriers that are shut down must reapply for authority to operate and are subject to more scrutiny than a new company trying to launch interstate bus service.
What a surprise! The cheapest bus company gets shut down because they don't train/maintain/fix their buses and bus drivers. As long as a company charges $1 for a service that obviously costs more than $1, these are the results you are gonna get. The only way Fung Wah was profitable was by not fixing shit and by stuffing 500 Asians with live chickens and shit onto a 45 person capacity trash bucket.
I'd rather walk to New York than take the Fung Wah. Way less of a chance of death or impalement.
Another thought: It doesn't make sense why so many Chinese folks want to go from one ChinaTown to another ChinaTown. Don't they all have the same stuff in them?
RIP Fung Wah and thanks for all the great memories:
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