Ikea Shuttle Bests MTA Service for Some
The Daily News reports that “countless commuters” are using the free Ikea shuttle service instead of city buses, saving $2 and, in some cases, shortening their commutes. “It’s like a free car service,” says a woman who takes the Ikea bus from Downtown to where she works in Red Hook. “It takes us straight downtown…
The Daily News reports that “countless commuters” are using the free Ikea shuttle service instead of city buses, saving $2 and, in some cases, shortening their commutes. “It’s like a free car service,” says a woman who takes the Ikea bus from Downtown to where she works in Red Hook. “It takes us straight downtown and I don’t have to wait for the bus to stop every block to let people on and off.” The paper found that only eight of 19 passengers on a recent trip were actually going to Ikea. One shuttle driver said that many of his morning passengers are actually patients at a methadone clinic. A spokesperson for Ikea says the company supports “mass transit, and if people are using our services and not going to Ikea, that’s fine with us as well.”
Commuters Using Ikea Shuttle Bus to Bypass MTA Routes [NY Daily News]
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12:33 = bitter bus driver
1:37
Why should I kill myself – I am having a wonderful life enjoying the turf field (with thousands of others) that you opposed at Cadman Plaza, free Water Taxi rides to Manhattan (that you opposed), the beginnings of the Brooklyn Bridge Park (that you opposed), enjoying the accessible waterfront parks built by Ikea and Fairway (both of which you oppossed), Cyclone games at Keyspan Park (that you opposed) and am looking forward to a rejuvenated JJ Byrne Park financed by the new development on 4th Ave (that you oppose), and spending a day enjoying the beach at a rejuvinated CI (which you oppose)
Kill myself – never, I am enjoying life too much – how about you? – didnt think so
I can’t believe Brownstoner has come to posting the right wing pro development propaganda of the Daily News. I thought you were lefty gentrifying scum Brownstoner?
11:37
At first I was going to tell you to walk in front of a bus, but on a second thought, why don’t you get behind one of those Ikea buses because it will just as certainly kill you, just more slowly and painfully.
12:25
The bus stops at the back of Borough Hall across from the Municipal Building. There’s a sign that says where it stops.
I’m all for anything that destroys the lives of addicts.
But 11.37, then those people would have to actually acknowledge that they’re the ones who are gentrifying their neighborhood.
10:51 = bitter renter
11:28
I’m guessing its possible to infer some things about a person who chose to slog their way around a store that is the size of four or five football fields.