Hasidic Bus Company Still Illegally Gender Segregating Public Buses

Two years ago, Private Transportation Corporation, the hasidic company that operates the B110, was threatened by the city’s Department of Transportation with losing its city contract if the gender segregation continued. It promised to stop gender segregating and released a new set of English-language rules for bus passengers to conform with the law. But as FailedMessiah.com exclusively reported then, it also released Yiddish-language rules for bus riders that maintained that illegal gender segregation. The city did nothing. And now the gender segregation reportedly continues.

 

Hasidic Bus Company Still Illegally Gender Segregating Public Buses
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

The B110, a New York City public bus line running between Williamsburg and Borough Park in Brooklyn, is operated by privately-owned bus company under contract to New York City.

Two years ago, Private Transportation Corporation, the hasidic company that operates the B110, was threatened by the city’s Department of Transportation with losing its city contract if the gender segregation continued. It promised to stop gender segregating and released a new set of English-language rules for bus passengers to conform with the law. But as FailedMessiah.com exclusively reported then, it also released Yiddish-language rules for bus riders that maintained that illegal gender segregation.

That exposure caused a furor, and that furor cased Private Transportation Corporation to issue new Yiddish language rules for riders that did not mandate gender segregation.

Haredi New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D- Borough Park) spoke to Private Transportation Corporation at that time and promised the public that gender segregation on Private Transportation Corporation’s city buses would stop immediately.

”When you get on that bus, you will sit wherever you want just like any other public transportation,” Hikind reportedly said at the time.

“But Good luck getting on, ladies!," Brooklyn Magazine wrote Friday after it obtained a photograph of the B110 with a gender segregation sign reading “MAN ONLY” visibly displayed.

“A B110 bus, filled with Hasidic men, spotted today on the BQE today bore a sign in its driver’s window: MAN ONLY. I guess women can take the next one on this rainy day.”

[Hat Tip: Jeff.]

Update 7:58 pm CDT – This is the anti-discrimination notice that was posted on the inside of a B110 bus yesterday:

[Hat Tip for the update: HeathenHassid.]

Comments

[Sarek]

Does the "Woman Only" bus have a female driver? If not, isn't that a violation? Or is the driver in a hermetically sealed compartment?

[jancsibacsi]

This is how theese hassidim operate,they have their own laws and the host country they are in is nonexstent to them,until you stop them they will continue to do what they want no wonder they are despised.

[Yochanan Lavie]

The Talibaner Rebbe approves. Let's bring Salafi-style gender apartheid to Israel & USA.

[put a square into a hole]

Shouldn't the sign read "MEN" and not "mAn"
Where are the charaidi bashers when it comes to proper grammar??

[dh]

Obviously the bus is dressed up for Halloween.

[rebitzman - $101 to read my posts]

So.......hard evidence the law is being ignored. Now what, New York?

[ruthie]

bloc voting allows this

[Moshe in Israel]

Me thinks that the MAN only sign is referring to the driver. Just in case one even thought that a woman driver would be permissible. Because we know that in WB, no women drive.

[old time brooklyn]

bloc $ helps too

[Naftush]

In the good ol' black curtain days, men and women preparing to get off bumped each other on opposite sides of the curtain. The company should've called itself "Monsey Tails."

[Neandershort]

Pull the franchise. If a route between Boro Park and Williamsburg is deemed necessary (the B44 and B11 will get you there) the city should operate it like any other route, including it on the official bus map and stopping all along the route. The ethnic mix of the ridership will then reflect that of the neighborhoods through which it runs. That is as it should be. Anybody afraid of his or her black shadow can arrange private transportation.
Note to the "heimish": America is your home now and you have to comply with its laws. If you cannot or will not, go back to your old home if the people there will have you. This is not the Soviet Union, which did not allow its Jews to leave.

[David]

"Hey, these goyim at the MTA don't know Hebrew or Yiddish so let's flout the policy in a language they can't understand" *tee hee hee*

How delightfully infantile--like they wouldn't punish their own child for trying to,put one over on an adult.

Yoo,hoo....Reb Hikind....vas is dis shtus?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[SP]

Nothing will happen as usual because the Hasidic Community are protected by City Hall.