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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Feds Order Fung Wah Off the Road

The budget bus between Boston and New York has been ordered to take its entire fleet off the road following a news story Monday.

One of the pioneers of fast, cheap bus service between Boston and New York City has been ordered off the roads because of structural problems with the buses. Federal officials have ordered the entire Fung Wah bus fleet to cease carrying passengers immediately, following a WBZ I-Team report that found cracks in 21 out of the company’s 28 buses. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in a press statement Tuesday that the service must shut down, according to several media outlets. “FMCSA’s safety investigators are continuing their examination of Fung Wah’s operations, including examining the safety records of its vehicles, drivers and other company safety performance requirements prescribed by…

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Mark Ouellette

5:53 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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