Nearly two years after shutting it down, federal regulators have given Boston-based Fung Wah Bus Transportation conditional approval to resume carrying passengers, but authorities say they'll be watching to see if the company slips back into a pattern of safety violations and mismanagement.
"It is essential that all private bus companies operating on our local streets are properly permitted, are following current regulations and guidelines with regard to their business practices, and are picking up and dropping off passengers at locations approved by the city," said Kate Norton, spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
Effective Dec. 11, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration authorized Fung Wah — known for its cheap fares to New York City — to resume operations, based on a negotiated safety management plan and the company's acceptance of five conditions: that it hire qualified managers responsible for safety and government compliance; that it limit service routes and trips during the first 60 days of operation; that it ensure all drivers are trained and tested, and install on-board devices to record their duty status; that it ensure — through training, monitoring and disciplinary action — that drivers do not exceed the speed limit; and that it agree to heightened monitoring by the FMCSA for four years.
In a statement yesterday, Fung Wah President Pei Lin Liang said: "We are working diligently to resume safe, effective and affordable passenger transportation service between New York and Boston. We are in the process of working with federal, state and local authorities to demonstrate that a new page has been turned."
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Utilities, which inspects buses on behalf of the FMCSA, said Fung Wah does not need DPU's authorization to operate.
The MBTA, which owns South Station, has not received a formal request from Fung Wah to resume operations there, spokeswoman Kelly Smith said.
In March 2013, the FMCSA shut down the bus company after it refused to turn over safety records. The agency subpoenaed the documents, which showed, among other things, falsified maintenance records and a failure to drug-screen drivers.
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