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MTA offers to keep LI Bus running through next year

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)

Acknowledging Nassau's "fiscal difficulties," the MTA has made the county an offer to keep operating Long Island Bus through next year even if Nassau cannot immediately fulfill its obligation to fund the system.

The future of LI Bus, which is owned by Nassau, has been in jeopardy since the Metropolitan Transportation Authority earlier this year said it no longer would financially support the...

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