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LI Bus riders: What's the backup plan?

Long Island Bus. The MTA wants to unload

Photo credit: Newsday / Howard Schnapp | Long Island Bus. The MTA wants to unload the service, leaving Nassau County to face a $26 million expense. (June 23, 2009)

Joye Brown

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Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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A group of civic, labor, environmental, business and transportation agencies fired off their own letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday -- asking for help in finding an alternative to privatizing Long Island Bus.

"Bus riders are staring into the abyss," according to the letter, signed by representatives of 17 organizations, including Vision Long Island, the Elmont and Hicksville chambers...

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