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Old 08-28-2018, 09:39 PM
 
Location: Manhattan
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Tens of thousands of New Yorkers pay for rides in illegal "dollar vans" every day. The MTA is vowing to get some of those passengers back.

I didn't even know there was such a thing.


MTA looks to lure dollar van passengers back
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Old 08-28-2018, 09:44 PM
 
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I see so many of these in Southeast Queens, but I haven't noticed them elsewhere. Is this mostly a Southeast Queens thing or do the other boroughs have them too?
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Old 08-28-2018, 09:51 PM
 
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I see so many of these in Southeast Queens, but I haven't noticed them elsewhere. Is this mostly a Southeast Queens thing or do the other boroughs have them too?
Dude just say Jamaica. The places you are calling Southeastern Queens are that far South. Also the most Southern parts of Queens like Howard Beach and the Rockaways don’t have these vans.
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Old 08-28-2018, 09:52 PM
 
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People use these vans to go from Jersey over the George Washington Bridge to the A train.
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Old 08-28-2018, 09:57 PM
 
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Dude just say Jamaica. The places you are calling Southeastern Queens are that far South. Also the most Southern parts of Queens like Howard Beach and the Rockaways don’t have these vans.
I'm referring to as far South as 147th Ave, which is right by JFK. That neighborhood does have a Jamaica, NY mailing address but so do Woodhaven and Ozone Park which are Southwest Queens.
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Old 08-29-2018, 03:33 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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MTA should focus on the subway. That is the biggest problem.

Why not just buy out the van companies and put a MTA logo on it. Bam done!
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Old 08-29-2018, 04:25 AM
 
Location: JC
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People use these vans to go from Jersey over the George Washington Bridge to the A train.
Union City and Latino heavy neighborhoods around the Lincoln Tunnel as well. Drop/pickup outside the Port Authority but a few of them use basement level gates inside the terminal.
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Old 08-29-2018, 04:36 AM
 
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Articles and map of dollar van routes:
https://projects.newyorker.com/story/nyc-dollar-vans/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/n...-van-wars.html
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Old 08-29-2018, 05:53 AM
 
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Dude just say Jamaica. The places you are calling Southeastern Queens are that far South. Also the most Southern parts of Queens like Howard Beach and the Rockaways don’t have these vans.
Rockaway had dollar vans since the 1980s. Two routes. One goes to Parsons and Archer, roughly following the path of the 113, and the one route goes down the beach to Beach 90th, sometimes to Beach 116th, similar to the Q22.
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Old 08-29-2018, 06:35 AM
 
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Rockaway had dollar vans since the 1980s. Two routes. One goes to Parsons and Archer, roughly following the path of the 113, and the one route goes down the beach to Beach 90th, sometimes to Beach 116th, similar to the Q22.
I got off the Q53 at Beach 95th last week and at the same time saw a lady get out of a dollar van going east on Rockaway Beach Blvd.
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