"In the aftermath of a winter storm that belted New York City with more than 10 inches of snow, officials said hundreds of bus shelters and stops were still snowed in, forcing commuters to scale slushy mounds Monday before going on their way. The piles created by the city's biggest snowfall in five years were, in some cases, stacked even higher by plows clearing the streets of accumulation and also creating icy obstacle courses for riders."
""It was a bad decision for me, OK?" Virgilio Gabarra, 78, said at a snowed-in bus shelter at Columbus Avenue and West 80th Street in Manhattan. "I thought it would be more convenient to take the bus and get dropped right in front of the church where I'm going - then I got to the stop and saw all this snow and oh, it's too late now.""
"There are approximately 10,000 New York City Transit bus stops across the city, according to the MTA, which kept more than 2,300 buses running throughout the storm, along with 4,400 subway and Staten Island Railway trains. The 3,400 bus shelters have benches where riders can sit while waiting for a ride. "It is the Department of Transportation's responsibility to clear bus stops and we have activated extra resources and DOT staff to be working on that," Julia Kerson, deputy mayor for operations, said Monday. "This was sort of an extraordinary amount of snow.""
More than 10 inches of snow blanketed New York City, leaving hundreds of bus shelters and thousands of stops buried and partially uncleared. Snow piles, in some places piled higher by plows, forced riders to climb slushy mounds or step into streets to reach buses. City crews cleared just over half of 3,400 enclosed shelters by Monday morning while sub-freezing temperatures threatened more ice. The MTA reported roughly 10,000 bus stops citywide and kept over 2,300 buses and 4,400 trains running during the storm. The Department of Transportation activated extra staff to clear stops amid extraordinary snowfall.
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