Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Bus union to fight firing of swearing driver
Queale defended the driver, an OC Transpo employee for the past 25 years — saying he had been spat on two days before the tirade. Queale also said the man lost both his mother and wife to cancer within the past year.
STORY HERE!
STORY HERE!
Could TriMet become a "free" (or nominally-priced) service?
Portland Transport
I'd be all for it...but I bet TriMet wouldn't!
I'd be all for it...but I bet TriMet wouldn't!
Jack Bogdanski: Hey, TriMet -- pull the plug on this driver, now!
It's really unbelievable what a tin ear Portland's transit agency has. The fuller story about the driver who recently trashed a mother with her crying child would curdle milk:
The driver’s 10-year disciplinary records read like a broken record of complaints, infractions and ineffective, light consequences with threats that the behavior must not continue. In 2007, the driver was issued a five-day suspension after repeated "inappropriate conduct" that a TriMet report says was similar to the most recent incident.The Line 57 driver, as a result of complaints, was required to go to counseling about "customer service skills" in February 2006, May 2006, November 2006, March 2007, May 2007, June 2009, September 2009, February 2010, January 2011, March 2011, April 2011 and July 2011. In addition, improvement plans were established for her in April and October 2005.Despite all that, complaints about the Line 57 driver increased in recent years without an apparent change in attitude. At an Oct. 14 hearing on the latest incident, the driver told TriMet investigators that she had done nothing wrong and that she wears cotton in her ears and keeps the bus fans on high to dampen the distraction of noise in her bus.
She's driving a bus with cotton in her ears? How in heaven's name is she supposed to be able to hear passengers, or emergency vehicles, or anything else?
Come on, Tri-Met. That's grounds right there. Pay the lawyers and get her out from behind the wheel. Now, before she hurts somebody. She's already trashed what minimal goodwill you have left.
TriMet's baby hating bus driver returns!
TriMet driver who told woman to silence her baby on Hillsboro route has history of problems with riders | Oregon Live
Now before you go to another page, sick of hearing about it (like I did at first), go click on the link and read a little...then read the rest.
It is really astounding. That tiny group of drivers who have a lot of complaints shouldn't be out driving like this one--it's a recipe for something really bad to happen.
Now before you go to another page, sick of hearing about it (like I did at first), go click on the link and read a little...then read the rest.
It is really astounding. That tiny group of drivers who have a lot of complaints shouldn't be out driving like this one--it's a recipe for something really bad to happen.
55 New Buses to come to TriMet in Fall of 2012
http://howweroll.trimet.org/2011/11/16/55-new-buses-to-join-the-fleet-in-2012/
TriMet had better not back out on it because those old buses are too old. 21 years old is too old. Interesting that TriMet is going back to Gillig buses instead of staying with New Flyer...I wonder why?
See more of my commentary here.
TriMet had better not back out on it because those old buses are too old. 21 years old is too old. Interesting that TriMet is going back to Gillig buses instead of staying with New Flyer...I wonder why?
See more of my commentary here.
The November 2011 RiderInsider
It is all quite entertaining. I urge you to go read it if you want a good laugh.
I wonder if TriMet will actually go through with getting all those new buses? It would sure be nice, but the only question I have is what TriMet is going to do about those 1600s and 1900s 30ft buses that go on some routes that have to have a shorter bus due to the route (turns, skinny roads, ect)? TriMet can't completely abandon the 30ft buses.
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