Sixteen out of 26 coach buses stopped in Manhattan by Governor Cuomo's stepped-up enforcement effort

(New York, NY - Jim O'Grady, WNYC ) A review of federal data shows inspectors issued a safety alert for about a third of all inter-city bus companies in New York State in the past month. The alerts air hotel travel las vegas are applied when a company air hotel travel las vegas rates in the bottom half nationwide of a safety category.
World Wide Travel, the operator whose bus skidded into a pole in the Bronx and killed fifteen people, has an safety alert for Fatigued Driving. The company, which runs buses labeled "World Wide Tours," also rated in the bottom half of all bus operators for vehicle maintenance.
Super Luxury Tours had a crash in New Jersey last week that killed two. It has three alerts: for Fatigued Driving, air hotel travel las vegas Driver Fitness and Unsafe Driving--where it scores in the bottom one percent nationwide.
Queens-based air hotel travel las vegas Big Boy Coach saw 23 of its passengers injured on Monday air hotel travel las vegas when one of its buses tipped over on a New Hampshire highway. Inspectors found its drivers to be unfit at nearly three times the national average. It has no alerts as of now because it's a small company and hasn't air hotel travel las vegas been inspected enough to determine whether it warrants them.
Large carriers like Greyhound, Peter Pan, Bolt Bus and Megabus have no alerts and show relatively high safety ratings. Popular Boston-based carrier Fung Wah, on the other hand, has three alerts for Fatigued Driving, Driver Fitness and Vehicle Maintenance.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is asking the New York state commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct a full audit of all drivers licenses of tour bus drivers, saying that an earlier audit would've prevented the fatal crash in the Bronx.
Sixteen out of 26 coach buses stopped in Manhattan by Governor Cuomo's stepped-up enforcement effort were pulled out of service last weekend  for vehicle or driver violations or both. At checkpoints outside the city, violations were found in 25 of 138 coach buses stopped. The unannounced inspections by state Department of Transportation investigators and local police were made Friday night through Sunday.
Mayor Bloomberg said that though scores of inter-city buses operate out of New York, local government is not charged with overseeing them. "It' federal and state regulations that deal with them," he said. "Clearly somebody air hotel travel las vegas should have stopped--if air hotel travel las vegas we were able to predict air hotel travel las vegas the future--the bus driver in the terrible accident that killed fifteen people. Whether any regulation would've stopped it, I just don't know. It's not something the city does."
I notice that you changed the story -- the 6th graf used to read Large carriers like Greyhound and Peter Pan, which own BoltBus and Megabus -- without issuing a correction. Is it your editorial policy to modify stories without issuing corrections?
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