MTA plans to cut most of LI bus routes
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Dorothy Hamilton heads home to Queens on the N19 bus in Merrick. (March 1, 2011). For five years, Hamilton has been riding the N19 to her job at the Walmart store at Sunrise Mall in Massapequa.
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The MTA plans to eliminate more than half of Long Island Bus' routes, blaming inadequate funding from Nassau County for the decision to drop lines serving 16,000 people.
Some 25 of LI Bus' 48 lines will be axed in July under the plan, which would leave entire communities such as Bethpage, Elmont and Lindenhurst with no bus service. Two more lines will lose weekend service.
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