Good news for those looking to propose on a MegaBus! Despite mounting pressure from the Port Authority and neighbors, the Department of Transportation has decided to let the cheap bus company continue to drop off and pick up customers outside of the PA terminal in Midtown. For now. The company's temporary permit to park outside the terminal was supposed to have expired today.
"We’re going to leave the permit in place," DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said today at the CitiBike press conference at City Hall. Kahn's logic seems to be that the Port Authority stop is better than the alternatives. So no point messing with it just yet. "Right now we’ve got a very dangerous situation with MegaBus in front of Penn Station, one of the busiest parts of the city," she said, according to DNAinfo, "Our streets are congested territory. It’s like the Wild West out there."
Still, she reportedly stressed the situation is "temporary" and that the city is trying to work out a better solution (while pushing hard for that bill regulating cheap bus parking to pass in Albany). MegaBus, meanwhile, is very happy: "Megabus is pleased that the City has extended the successful pilot program through the end of May to accommodate the scheduling needs of Community Board 4," company spokesman George Lence said in a statement.
