Charter bus company DC2NY is getting desperate. The company sent out 2 emails in 24 hours yesterday asking for help help against a new mandate forcing all intercity buses to load at L’Enfant Promenade, the only “designated intercity bus zone”.

That order comes courtesy of the District’s Department of Transportation, and means all the companies, including beloved Chinatown buses, will have to leave their native environs. DC2NY, naturally, has a counter-proposal: designating their turf at Dupont Circle an inter-city bus zone too. Their plan to do that involves getting their fans in DC, who have so often benefited from DC2NY’s help with distant concerts or booty calls, to pitch in by emailing Transportation employees and councilmembers.

After all, as those water bottle mongers insist, Southwest is scary! Save Dupont! Write to our favorite  councilman Jack Evans (who conveniently sits on the relevant committee) and help DC2NY load wherever it likes.

Whole e-mail, with a font that practically says, “Remember me, the cool bus? We had great times, didn’t we?”, after the jump

Greetings,

We are contacting you as a past passenger on a DC2NY bus on the Washington DC New York City corridor. We wanted you to be aware of a proposed change that the city of Washington is making. They are forcing all the intercity buses to move their pick-up and drop off locations to 10th Street SW, beneath the L’Enfant Promenade, this would not be a convenient location for any of our DC2NY guests. The city has cited that the bus companies have been blocking traffic, sidewalks and entrances to businesses, however none of these accusations apply to our locations. Additionally we carefully chose the Dupont Circle area as a safe location allowing most of you convenient access to your homes and destinations.

Naturally, we are urging the city to approve our current stop locations as “designated intercity bus zones”, but we need your support. We have already heard from some of you, but now is the time to let your opinions be known. Would you please consider sending a letter to support us in our quest to allow us to be able to serve you from our current locations. Please address your emails to Karina Ricks, the Associate Director, District Department of Transportation at karina.ricks@dc.gov. It would be helpful to copy Mr. Emeka Moneme, the Director at: Emeka.moneme@dc.gov.

Please also copy the following city council members as they are members of the committee on Public Works and the Environment:

Councilman Jack Evans: jackevans@dccouncil.us
Councilman Kwame Brown: kbrown@dccouncil.us
Councilman Jim Graham: jgraham@dccouncil.us
Councilwoman Mary Cheh: mcheh@dccouncil.us
Councilwoman Muriel Bowser: mbowser@dccouncil.us
Councilwoman Yvette Alexander: yalexander@dccouncil.us

Please be sure to copy us here at info@dc2ny.com and we want to thank you very much for your support and patronage. Hopefully with your support we will be able to remain in our current safe and convenient locations.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm and is filed under District News, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.