Zero passengers on Hudson Link buses wasting federal TIGER grant money.

And no replies from officials: federal, state, county.

Here, read about the bus nonsense in downtown White Plains, NY:

https://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/search/label/Buses

The newest and most outrageous: Hudson Link buses. They don't have very few passengers, like the ridiculous $115 million a year Westchester County Bee-Line bus system. They have no passengers.

On the sides of the Hudson Link buses: TransDev:

Transdev Expands Operating Footprint in New York with Rockland ...

https://www.transdevna.com/.../transdev-expands-operating-footprint-in-new-york/

Sep 20, 2018 - ... Transdev will begin operations of a state-of-the-art commuter bus network—the New York State Department of Transportation's Hudson Link ...

Lower Hudson Transit Link

https://www.dot.ny.gov/LHTL

The Lower Hudson Transit Link is a program of integrated projects that support traffic and transit improvements in Rockland and Westchester Counties.

https://www.dot.ny.gov/lhtl/about/tiger-grant

TIGER GRANT

In October 2015, the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded $10 million to the LHTL program through its highly competitive TIGER Grant program, which funds capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure projects. The offices of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Chuck Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Congresswoman Nita Lowey were instrumental in rallying support among stakeholders across the State for the application. The TIGER program is a highly competitive process. The LHTL program was one of the 39 applications selected from 627 eligible applications in 2015!

Although TIGER funding only covers a portion of the project’s total costs, the grant will provide an indispensable resource in the construction and rollout of new amenity-rich bus stations, comprehensive intersection improvements at stations, signal upgrades along Route 59 in Rockland and Route 119 in Westchester, ramp metering/queue jump lanes along I-287, and Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) technology along I-287 and routes 59 and 119.

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https://www.dot.ny.gov/recovery/sponsors/tiger

Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)

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Politicians must be licking themselves:

Federal: Schumer, Gillibrand, Lowey

State: Cuomo, Cousins-Stewart, Buckwald

County: Astorino, Latimer, Alfreda Williams, Boykin

Local: Roach, Lecuona, Martin, Krolian, Kirkpatrick, Hunt-Robinson, Brasch