History
Fung Wah was founded in New York City in 1996, as Fung Wah Transport Vans, Inc., by Pei Lin Liang, who had immigrated from Zhuhai, China in 1988. Before founding the company, Liang had worked as a driver for Four Seas, a local Chinese shuttle service that took passengers from Sunset Park in Brooklyn to Chinatown in Manhattan. Liang founded Fung Wah to directly compete with his former employer in transporting Chinese garment and restaurant workers to Chinatown. Fung Wah began as a dollar van service shuttling Chinese immigrants between Brooklyn and Manhattan's Chinatown.
A year later, at the request of customers who wanted to visit their children in college in Boston, it expanded, connecting Chinatowns in New York and Boston, and gradually grew to being a low cost intercity transit provider. It originally operated curbside out of Boston's Chinatown, but moved to the nearby South Station bus terminal in 2004 due to traffic concerns from the city.
On June 15, 2009, Fung Wah expanded service to Providence, Rhode Island at the Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal in downtown Providence, but discontinued this route in 2010.
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