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New York Is the Place to Be During the Holiday Season NEW YORK CITY — the Big Busiest Times of the Year Just from Seums and Broadway Shows, and Ough November 1, 2017 Crowdsourcing bus trips is ‘the world we live in today’ Passenger carriers have vehi- enough to fill a bus, for example. charter company.” based trips arranged by Rally, the Flagship Trailways has filled cles. Passengers have trips. Match- “We have two concepts,” said Second, Hellman said, “We New York City-based “crowdpow- up to eight coaches for Rally trips ing them creates business. Axel Hellman, transportation give the buses the technology to ered travel” provider. to major music concerts and sport- The modern business model planner for OurBus.” do multiple lines of business at “It’s the world we live in today. ing events in the northeastern U.S. uses software and technology to First, he said, “We are a plat- once.” I guess you’d call it the shared It also contributed eight of the 800 create business transactions for form that helps people crowd- Crowdsourcing could assume a economy,” McCaughey said. buses, supplied by 135 operators, everything from pizza delivery to source commuter bus routes. If growing portion of the business of “When I was a kid, the most that Rally crowdsourced for the cab rides. there are a lot of people who want the motorcoach industry, said Tom important thing in the world was Women’s March on Washington in A variation, “crowdsourcing,” to set up a transport service, they McCaughey, president of Flagship getting a driver’s license. My kids January. Those coaches carried attempts to aggregate a lot of peo- pull together on our site. If it Trailways in Cranston, R.I. drive, but they also ride the bus 48,000 women. ple interested in traveling to the reaches the point that the route is For three years he has been and ride the train. We have a lot of “I have three buses going to same place at the same time — feasible, we match it up with a fielding motorcoaches for event- young Millenials riding buses.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 c ABC planning electric buses, Vintage Bus Rally Van Hool U.S. assembly plant WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — and used motorcoaches in 2017, An unexpected slump in the first down from 1,150 last year, Cornell quarter left ABC Companies with said. It has sold motorcoaches “a good year but not a great year” from Belgian-based Van Hool for in 2017, but optimism nonetheless 30 years. flourishes at ABC facilities across “There was a very slow start to the country. the year. It was hard to pinpoint,” he ABC President and CEO Dane said. “I believe operators were re- Cornell said the company has its freshing their fleets at a good pace biggest-ever backlog of Van Hool over the last three to four years and motorcoach deliveries for the first there was just a bit of a pause in the half of 2018, expects to start elec- first quarter. Carrier consolidations tric motorcoach deliveries in 2019 led to excess vehicles on the used and anticipates the opening of a market and there wasn’t the demand The BusBoys Vintage Bus Rally in Evansville, Ind., showcased the largest fleet of vintage Van Hool assembly plant in the that there had been in the past.” buses ever assembled in North America and attracted an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 individuals, U.S. within 24 months. Cornell said ABC hit its including area residents, bus nuts and bus industry enthusiasts from across the U.S. and Canada, ABC will sell about 1,000 new CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 c and from as far away as Australia and Hungry. See story and photos starting on Page 15. New York is the place to be during the holiday season NEW YORK CITY — The Big busiest times of the year just from seums and Broadway shows, and ough. It also has tours to the of midtown, I am. I think there’s a Apple is popular to visit year- the traffic,” said Michael Neustadt, his company is happy to oblige, Bronx, including an Italian neigh- lot more to do and putting yourself round, but like a Radio City Rock- co-owner of Coach Tours, which Neustadt said. borhood with great restaurants, in Times Square the weekend be- ettes dance move, it kicks into a operates a business office in Brook- One thing Coach Tours does shops and bakeries, as well as the fore Christmas is a wonderful, ex- higher gear during the holidays. field, Conn., and garage in Carmel, year-round, but especially during New York Botanical Garden in the citing thing, but it has its issues For motorcoach operators try- N.Y., north of the city. the holidays, is promote trips to Bronx and the Bronx Zoo, which because of the crowds.” ing to find a place to park, fuhget- He estimates Coach Tours eas- lesser-known attractions because have a number of indoor attrac- That’s tough on clients and taboudit — it’s a 45-foot challenge ily sends a couple dozen buses into of the crowds and traffic in mid- tions that time of year, he said. operators trying to navigate traf- — but they take their guests where the city each week during the town Manhattan. The Botanical Garden has re- fic, and parking is especially they want to go. And New York holidays. It offers, among other things, a markable Christmas decorations in challenging. City is the place to be. People love to see the Rock- “slice of pizza tour” of Brooklyn, the main greenhouse, he said. “But I don’t want to degrade “The attractions of New York ettes (their “Christmas Spectacu- taking guests to popular restau- “So there are lots of other New York City at all,” Neustadt are year-round, but you can tell eas- lar” show runs Nov. 10-Jan. 1), the rants, pizza parlors and neighbor- things,” Neustadt said. “If it said. “It is my favorite city in the ily that Christmastime is one of the tree at Rockefeller Center, the mu- hoods of the up-and-coming bor- sounds like I’m promoting outside CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 c Let an MCI pre-owned coach pro find the right fit for your fleet. 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