Judge denies TWU’s commuter van injunction request

A New York State Supreme Court judge denied the TWU’s request for an injunction against the city’s new commuter van program. Designed to replace bus routes lost to the service cuts with private operators, the commuter van program came under fire from the TWU who claimed it violated state law and was an unsafe alternative to bus operations. Justice Anil C. Singh disagreed, and now the Taxi & Limousine Commission will move full speed ahead. The TWU will run one of these van routes, and The Daily News has more on the one operator-per-line approach the TLC will soon establish for this pilot program.