I. Daneek Miller
President/ Business Agent
ATU Local 1056
So-called commuter vans, unreliable, often unsafe and many more times than not operating illegally, fail to offer straphangers a true alternative to bus service cuts by the MTA. The best solution remains the restoration of service cuts; the MTA needs but $8,014,000 to restore its Queens lines. That’s why Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1056, representatives of the NYCTA Bus Division of Queens NY, remain vehemently opposed to any authorization of commuter vans to replace discontinued bus routes.
Vans offer no solution to the long or short term problems facing public transportation here in the city and in particular the borough of Queens. Queens needs more lines and many of the lines cut need to be re-engineered.
