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Re: GM Old Look as a School Bus |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri May 25 17:43:26 2018, in response to Re: GM Old Look as a School Bus, posted by northshore on Thu May 24 19:31:37 2018. Yes, but there was a year or two gap, when it was sub-contracted to Schenk Tours, their beat up GM buses, and drivers getting lost. They were also clueless as to when to call up for 2 or 3 sections of a Hamptons/Montauk schedule. HCC knew the market better from experience/When some idiot at MTA decided to restructure the service and in-source to MSBA, they forgot that MSBA had only a small charter bus fleet inherited, not sufficient to takeover the Road'n"Rail service. So Huntington Coach 's immaculate 1969 era SDM-5303's gave way to Schenk's PD's and SDM's of the early and mid-1960's. Some PD's were 35' and of limited capacity. I don't know why MTA could not have simply bought HCC's9 SDM's. HCC had to sell them to Riverdale Transit and DC Transit. The North Fork bus was ruined. While 6 trips per day became 7, they lost the popular 830am Greenport departure, and no more Greenport overnight layups of 2 buses. Then they abandoned teh service along Route 25 and 347 between Riverhead and Huntington. So they lost half their patronage. |
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