Shitty Buses * USA - Transportation Lots of
CAL,USA -SLOG/The Stranger, by Dominic Holden -March 15, 2010: -- I've been in San Francisco, where the buses are dirty. The windows and walls are scuffed from graffiti and abrasive cleaners. The seats are approximately as soft as granite. Some floors are carpeted in trash. The roofs leak... Here's a bus in a rain storm. The floor is wet, in part with footprints from outside, but mostly because the ceiling was dripping. You can see the water drops on the guy's coat in front of me... These shitty buses are packed from dawn to midnight with the wealthy, the poor, the stable, the crazy—oh my, are some of those people crazy—even though the buses are gross... People will ride a disgusting bus if it's the best way to get around... The aesthetics of a bus are worth fuck all if you don't know how long it's going to take to arrive. I'd happily switch to having lots of shitty buses that come more frequently. Also, more ballsy public-health messages on buses like this would be great... (Photo: rain_bus.jpg)* Buses may get dirtier as CTA tests plan to cut back on cleaning - Stretched thin on personnel, agency considers making short work of deep cleaning to cut costs
Chicago,ILL,USA -The Chicago Sun Times, by MARY WISNIEWSKI -March 18, 2010: -- CTA buses might get dirtier... The CTA wants to shorten the amount of time recommended to "deep clean" a bus from four hours to two hours for 40-foot buses, and from six hours to three hours for 60-foot buses, according to CTA internal documents... The CTA says the document showing the shorter time is a draft proposal that is being tested... To cope with a $95.6 million budget deficit, the CTA on Feb. 7 cut service by 18 percent on buses and 9 percent on rail, and laid off 1,057 employees, including those who clean the buses... (Photo by John J. Kim/The Sun-Times - The CTA bus workers union says buses will be dirtier if the agency shortens the amount of time to "deep clean" each vehicle. CTA buses are swept regularly, but they're washed down at two-to-four-week intervals) Labels: dirty buses
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