Brooklyn $1 Van Drivers Feel Pressure

In Brooklyn, on one of the busiest avenues, there is a daily battleground between commuter vans drivers and public authority.

Beginning in the 1980s after a Mass Transit strike dollar vans, as they are often referred to, are fifty cents cheaper than the Mass Transit Authority bus or subway, and because of their convenience, vans have become the transportation of choice for many residents within the Flatbush community.

Yet van drivers have become a nuisance for transportation authorities, like the MTA and New York Police Department, who see them as taking revenue from a profitable commercial area.

The explosive growth of this small but visible segment of New Yorks economy is a window on the world of aspiring new generations of entrepreneurs and a parable about what government does, both purposefully and inadvertently, to quash their aspirations.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Commuter
• vans
• Flatbush
• Brooklyn
• Dollar
• Van

[TheNaramatu]

Screw it, how do I start a dollarvans?

[TheNaramatu]

Word! Let the people decide! Unbelievable to me how government can protect public transit like that, simply unbelievable. I'll ride if I ever come out to brooklyn or flatbush I'll keep an eye out, that is the most absurd thing I heard, what are they so afraid of, Legal Immigrants making what money they can here, and isn't that capitalistic following the rules like that, making what you can if you can? Unbelievable, can I write a governer or an official about this?