Staten Island’s bus service is getting a boost, with newer rides replacing close to half of the borough’s fleet by the middle of next year, MTA officials said Monday.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials said the newer reinforcements for Staten Island are arriving at the expense of bus service elsewhere in the city, with the more reliable coaches brought in as a result of swaps with the Flatbush and Ulmer Park depots in Brooklyn.
“You can’t fix Staten Island by having buses breaking down in Brooklyn,” JP Patafio, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 vice president for Brooklyn bus operators, told THE CITY. “That’s not an appropriate fix.”…