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NEW YORK — Public transportation, crippled by the Sunday blizzard, is limping along today and, contradicting Mayor Bloomberg, MTA Chairman Jay Walder warned that problems will continue throughout Tuesday.

Thousands of Busses Stuck Around City

NEW YORK — Public transportation, crippled by the Sunday blizzard, is limping along today and, contradicting Mayor Bloomberg, MTA Chairman Jay Walder warned that problems will continue throughout Tuesday.

About a thousand buses are stranded across the city yesterday, and some remained stuck in the slush last night, stymieing efforts to get routes back on schedule.

“It was a disaster,” one transit supervisor said of the stranded buses, blaming poor planning and the decision to keep sending buses out without tire chains well after storm started. Many bus drivers had to stay with their bogged-down rigs overnight.

Subway trains are in better shape, but according to the MTA’s website, every line that is operating has delays or services changes. Some aboveground sections of the subway system are still not running.

Bus service will largely depend on how well the streets are cleared by the city Sanitation Department, which has struggled mightily against the volume of snow and swirling winds that created snowdrifts.

Check out MTA.info for more updated information.

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With reporting from the New York Daily News

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19 Comments

  • HIS FAULT!!!

    THIS WHOLE MESS THAT WE ARE ALL IN IS BLOOMBERG’S FAULT BIG TIME, LET’S ALL BLAME HIM, WE HAVE TO, HE’S TRYING TO SAVE MONEY AND THAT IS WHY THIS IS ALL HAPPENING!!!

  • ceo

    this mayor thinks that everything is from NYC and its revenue. Its not ALL about about NYC

  • Oy Gevald

    You see Oholei Torah buses never get stuck while driving to pick up the Kinderlach in the snow. But in this case they didn’t want to push their luck. Positive thinking on their side. Besides how can 3 year olds possibly climb over the four foot mounds, from the sidewalk to the bus. Kol hakoved to the vaad for cancelimg bus transportation. It shows that safety is on their minds. let’s pray that the weather warms up, and the snow melts Bekorev Mamesh, and the kids can travel safely on the bus to school. A happy and concerned mother. Even though its not easy having the kids home. But safety first. So thank whomever made the smart and right decision.

  • disgusted

    To number 4. Your chilren would be in school if our streets would be plowed and our busses could run. My sister lives in Monsey where there was more snow than here but their schools were open because EVERY street was plowed. Lucky them. Mayor Bloomberg is not their mayor. Our community reps get an F. They apparently did nothing because now Tuesday at 3 oclock P.M. a plow has yet to be seen. Your darling children could be sitting and learning Torah if we would have a more responsible community reps

  • a c.h.er

    Mayor Bloomberg was so not ready for this! But a city like New York should be prepared especially since u were NOT caught by surprise!!

  • to #4 oy gevald

    i agree with your comment 100%, but you have to give credit where credit is due. The vaad did not cancel the buses, they have nothing to do with it. Divi B. was responsible for this one. Thank you so much! keep up the good work.

  • lloyd a cohen

    What do you expect, this is New York. There ahs to be several reasons why New york–including Brooklyn, is placed consistently in the top ten worse places to live, work and to raise a family. Bloomberg does not know how to run a city and this person wants to be President.

  • lloyd a cohen

    oh, forgot to mention that emergency services are hindered tremendously by non-snow removal. Example, how about the area around St. John”s and Utica especially Lincoln Street and how good are the side roads on Eastern parkway. Thankgoodness for Hatzollahthey develivered how many babies in Boro Park owing to the inability to get to proper facilities or obtain emergency services.
    I used to live in Newton, Mass, their snow emergency has been long ended and all is basically back to normal.

  • ME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SNOW MOUNTAI

    ITS NOT ONLY CROWN HEIGHTS ITS FLATBUSH ALSO , WE DONT HAVE ANY TRAINS OR CITY BUSES TO COME TO SCHOOL OR TO GO TO WORK.
    THE STREETS IN FLATBUSH ALSO HAVE NOT BEEN PLOWED THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE SUN TO SHINE.

  • Oy Gevald

    I agree with you #7. Divi is the Vaad. She runs the whole school. Being that she is female, and the Ness of purim didn’t happen yet, I didn’t want to embarrass our male friends. LOL

  • HIS FAULT # 3

    BLOOMBERG IS VERY QUICK IN TAKING OUR TAX MONEY, FOR WHAT ? WHERE IS IT GOING TO ? YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING ?, IT IS GOING TO HIS BIG FAT POCKET… HE THINKS HE IS SAVING MONEY BY NOT PLOWING THE SNOW, OK, BUT LITTLE DOES HE KNOW THAT IT’S SLOWING DOWN ALL THE BUSSINESES AND THE ECONIMY IS NOT MAKING MONEY AT ALL!!!

  • be prepared?

    It snows every winter, but New York was not prepared for a big storm. What would happen if there were chas v’Shalom, a terror attack? Would Mayor Blumberg know what to do?

  • Ariyeh Leib Segall

    Ufortunately, this year Biltei Seder was the order of the day…Lack of enforcement of the Snow Emergency regulations, let stupidity reign supreme…!!!
    The idiots that decided not to make sure the BUS had the proper equipment before they set out will never come forth to take the blame !!!
    A round of applause for NYPD and especially for Team Simonetti…
    who consistently display their incomptence and their inability to fight their way out of a paper bag…!!!
    All Precint vehicles should have been prepared..!!!
    The stupid goyim don’t teach basic bad weather survival skills in the academy…It requires too much thinking !!!

  • Milhouse

    I don’t understand your headline. Is it so cold that when people kiss each other their lips freeze and they remain stuck together? I hoped to see some explanation in the article, but all it talks about are buses, and not a word about busses! Please explain (or correct the headline).

  • Fed Up Too

    B“H

    There is no excuse for main streets in the neighborhood to still be unplowed. I heard a rumor that DSNY is staging a slowdown in protest over the laying off of thousands of workers. I don’t know if that is true, but it would surely explain why the neighborhood is still buried.

    All the Mayor knows is Manhattan. He lives there and works there. He probably thinks the ”outer boroughs” are a bunch of losers who don’t deserve the same services that Manhattan gets.

    In any case I agree with Lloyd in #8 that Brooklyn is one of the worst places to live, but what we can do when the Rebbe told us to stay? Sure it’s better than Warsaw in 1940, but that doesn’t mean we have to put up with all the garbage that we put up with in CH…

  • Plows sitting in a garage

    http://www.vosizneias.com/7…
    commenter there is reporting that in CrownHeights plows sitting in a garage as well. Anyone care to check? This is what people are talking about. Everywhere. But not on CH info. wake up guys. I rather read you then vin, but you gotta report.