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Nexis4Jersey t1_jcz5fsm wrote

Hopefully NJT takes over the routes like they did with Red&Tan in Hudson County. This is 5th bus company to fold in the last 5 yrs in this region...

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throw495887 t1_jcze121 wrote

The concept of privately-operated bus lines in a first world country is a little bit ridiculous. The only reason they survive is with handouts from NJT like free leased buses. At worst you have companies like Academy bilking the state for millions by lying about the number of buses that they ran. If the state stopped treating these carriers with kid gloves they would’ve all been out of business decades ago.

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dirty_cuban t1_jd08ac9 wrote

You know I actually like New Jersey. I don’t hate the state or disagree with the politicians. I don’t mind paying my SALT taxes (of which we pay a shit load). I have no desire to move south. But there a lot of seriously entrenched corruption in this state that should be cleaned up.

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Nexis4Jersey t1_jczh77f wrote

Ameribus was complaining about NJT not giving them buses... Someone told me in the 90s they sued the state to break up the monopoly NJT held...but most of them could not keep up the service levels that NJT had and now it looks like NJT will probably absorb some more routes.

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nugudan t1_jd0cdfl wrote

Buses are privately run and publicly subsidized in Japan, UK, Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, etc. - unless you want to argue that those are not first world countries.

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throw495887 t1_jd0gc87 wrote

Yes, it may be common in Japan and the UK. And these countries aren't really known for high quality bus service. Buses in London are good but these are run on a contract system, not similar to the situation that Decamp, Coach USA, etc have. And when you go out to other parts of Britain the quality drops off a lot.

I don't know anything about the other countries you mentioned. It's still a minority of countries. With high labor costs for bus drivers it is extremely difficult if not impossible to make bus service run profitably.

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StuMaximuss t1_jd2hqsc wrote

Which is why we pay taxes in NJ, NJT was cheaper per month. BECAUSE we subsidized with taxes and it wasn’t a for profit business.

Fuck private buses in NJ. This is great news.

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STMIHA t1_jczgxmj wrote

This it’s likely the case. The routes were technically party of an agreement with NJT

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getshwifty2 t1_jd0hv1i wrote

This would be fantastic if it ends up true. The NJT app itself would make life easier.

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