The state has sued Academy Bus, alleging it defrauded NJ Transit out of more than $15 million by underreporting the number of trips it missed and charging for others it never ran.

Academy Bus will pay $20.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by New Jersey accusing the private company of underreporting missed bus trips and by over-billing New Jersey Transit for hours and ...

A bus company accused of overcharging New Jersey Transit for missed trips and over-billing for hours and miles driven will pay more than $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the state, the ...

This finding meant NJ Transit could recover about $9,900 in penalties for missed trips and those unreported, which are $150 and $300 per trip, respectively.

A bus company defrauded New Jersey’s public transit corporation out of more than $15 million by underreporting trips its buses missed and billing for trips it never took, according to a civil ...

In May 2019, passengers took more than 158,000 trips on Xpress buses. Last May, they took less than 47,000 trips. As a result, the agency says operating 27 bus routes with 55 stops is not sustainable.

Bus routes Nos. 2, 10, 22, 22x, 23, 88 and 119 were operated by Academy, a slew of routes in the Hudson Service Area that accounted for about 175,000 bus trips annually.

It outlined how the Covid pandemic caused a fall in the total number of kilometres travelled between 2020 and 2021 from 151.52 million to 129.15 million.