Vid: Chinatown Bus Pioneer Fung Wah Strangled by Federal Bureaucracy

In 1993, Pei Lin Liang, an immigrant from Guangdong province and
a former noodle factory deliveryman, started a local van service in
New York City that would later become Fung Wah, the very first
“Chinatown bus” company. Liang deserves credit for launching a
revolution in “curbside busing”—in which motor coaches pick up and
drop off passengers right off the street—now the
fastest growing mode of intercity travel in the U.S.

Last March, the U.S. Department of
Transportation forced Fung Wah to halt its operations, which was
part of a broader safety crackdown on the industry. As Reason

reported last year, the closing of Fung Wah was the result of
regulatory incompetence—but an even greater injustice is what’s
happened in the year and a half since.

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