"Robert Woolley" wrote:

I would challenge MTA's claim that it operates, "This makes New York
City Transit's system the world's largest accessible fleet." [of
accessible buses]"

According to
http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk...lowfloor.shtml

there are some 5,600 fully accessible buses in service in London,
compared to a quoted figure on MTA's web page at

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/facts/ffbus.htm

of some 4,400 buses.


Of course, if you wanted to be pedantic, you could argue that London
actually has many *separate* fleets of accessible buses, all of them smaller
than the overall NYC fleet - because almost the entire network is contracted
out to a number of private companies.

But if you wanted to be *really* pedantic, you could argue that New York
also has separate fleets - with those run by the MTA's New York City Transit
Authority being entirely separate from those run by the MTA's Manhattan and
Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority!


(Out of interest, does either the MTA's claim or the 4400-bus figure quoted
include the private bus companies running routes under contract to the
City - the ones that the MTA is trying to take over?)



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