ALBANY, N.Y. Monday saw the completion of the final leg of the transportation proposal U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) announced in 2013. The new BusPlus Purple Line launched, finalizing the project that included construction of the Blue Line and updates to the Red Line. “(In 2013) […]
ALBANY, N.Y. Monday saw the completion of the final leg of the transportation proposal U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) announced in 2013. The new BusPlus Purple Line launched, finalizing the project that included construction of the Blue Line and updates to the Red Line. “(In 2013) […]
Maureen O Hare, CNN • Updated 21st December 2020
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(CNN) Somewhere on that 7 a.m. Greyhound bus journey between Port Authority and Albany, I started crying.
Being stranded by a blizzard in New York had been fun at first: crunching through piled-high sidewalks was a Christmas movie come true.
But the record-breaking snowfall in the Eastern United States from December 16 to 20, 2009, caused 1,200 flights to be canceled out of New York s three major airports.
I got less of a kick out of spending hours on hold in my shoebox hotel room, scrambling to get travel rescheduled at one of the busiest times of the year.