The Atlantic

Want to Ride a Safer Chinatown Bus? Pick a Colorful One

One unique bit of information we gleaned from Thursday's news of a big federal crackdown that shuttered 26 different Chinatown bus operations is that the more colorfully painted buses tend to be safer ...
Washington Examiner

Examiner Local Editorial: ‘Chinatown bus’ lines fill important niche

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently cracked down on 26 “Chinatown bus” operators in six states running routes along the East Coast’s congested Interstate 95. The move raises concerns that ...
Gotham Gazette

For Budget Buses, Chinatown's Clogged Streets Are Wide Open

Around the clock, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, crowds fill the narrow Chinatown sidewalks waiting to board buses run by companies such as Double Happiness, Fung Wah and Lucky Star. For as ...
The Atlantic

U.S. Government Orders Chinatown Bus Line to Shut Down

Update, 12:55 p.m.: The Boston Globe reports that the federal government has ordered Fung Wah to stop all service immediately: BREAKING: US government orders Fung Wah bus line to immediately cease ...
City Limits

Trouble On the Highway And Parked In Chinatown

Best known for their bargain prices, interstate buses run by Chinese companies have attracted travelers in droves, and helped many Chinese immigrants who can’t communicate in English to travel to ...
The Washington Post

'Chinatown Buses': What You Need to Know

How safe are the 30 or so cheap, so-called "Chinatown buses" that pick up passengers waiting on the curb for runs between Washington, New York and Boston? That question took on new urgency this month ...
The Boston Globe

Chinatown remembers mothers who organized bus boycott during Boston’s busing crisis

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...