Fung Wah Bus Transportation Inc.

Fung Wah Bus Transportation, Inc.

Fung Wah Bus Van Hool C2045 #98 makes a stopover in eastern Connecticut along its route.
Founded	1996
Defunct	2015
Headquarters	25 Edinboro Street, Boston, MA 02111
Locale	Northeastern United States
Service area	New York City and Boston
Service type	Line-run service
Routes	1
Stations	2
Fleet	28
Chief executive	Pei Lin Liang
Website	fungwahbus.com

Fung Wah Bus Transportation Inc. (Traditional Chinese: 風華巴士有限公司, Simplified Chinese: 风华巴士有限公司) was a bus company that operated a line run between Boston and New York City, United States. It operated from 1996 to 2015, except for a brief period in 2014 when it was shut down for safety inspections.

The name Fung Wah came from the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese name , which means "magnificent wind."

Fung Wah used a fleet of over two dozen buses to operate hourly scheduled service between South Station in Boston and Chinatown in Manhattan. It usually traveled over Interstate 95 on its route.

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 dollar van service that shuttled Chinese garment and restaurant workers from Sunset Park in Brooklyn to Chinatown in Manhattan. Fung Wah began as a direct competitor with Liang's former employer. The Chinese characters of the company's name were written in English as Fenghua Jieyun Gongsi and translated as Elegant Rapid Transit Company. Translations of "Fung Wah" from Cantonese included Chinese Wind.

In 1997, Liang borrowed $60,000 and bought four vans at the request of customers who wanted to visit their children in college in Boston, and gradually grew to being a low cost intercity transit provider. As one of the first of the Chinatown bus lines, Fung Wah operated between designated curbside locations only. By 2003, Fung Wah and competitors like Lucky Star Bus were competing fiercely, with low prices and allegations of crime connections at other competitors. While it originally operated curbside out of Boston's Chinatown, Fung Wah moved to the nearby Boston South Station bus terminal in 2004 due to traffic concerns from Boston city government. Between 1997 and 2007, Chinatown buses like Fung Wah took 60% of Greyhound Lines' market share in the northeast United States.