• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I worked in Manhattan and had coworkers who lived in Pennsylvania. Two hours each way. A story I heard was that a bus company recruited drivers who would get up at 4am, pick up passengers, drive to the city, and then go to another job. 6 pm they get in the bush and drive home.

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      5 months ago

      That doesn’t make much sense. What happened to the bus in the middle of the day?

      Parking in Downtown Manhattan can be rented out for $30 - $50 per hour, maybe $80 all day. And that’s a car-sized space. Since a bus is two or three of those, it would make no sense to just waste $240+ on an unused bus.

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        5 months ago

        Before Hudson Yards went up that space was mostly empty. I’ve also seen lines of buses parked under the FDR downtown.