Making $20 an hour to drive a bus (a bus!!), and they wanted more from the public teat? No wonder we're going broke.
I ride the bus every day to work. I also ride it to get downtown when going to bars or restaurants, I take the LRT to the Mall...you could say I use transit more than the average person here. I see bus drivers have to deal with motorists who refuse to obey state law and yield to the bus, I see motorists try to run buses off the road when they are on the shoulder on the freeway, I see drivers deal with short fares, belligerent riders, and drunk riders. This morning on my bus ride to work a police officer had to be called to deal with a problem rider. Drivers spend several hours a day driving buses over pothole-filled streets, shaking and getting jolted in their seats. While they are trying to maneuver 20 tons of metal and get 50 riders to their destinations safely, they are getting flipped off, yelled at, sworn at, even called "racists pigs" because they won't let a rider on for free. No, I don't think they are overpaid in any way. I wouldn't have that job no matter how much it paid. I certainly wouldn't start out as a part-time driver for far less than $20 an hour, which is how drivers start.
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Nathan Hunstad
CARAG
Minneapolis, MN
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