Buses World News
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Dirtier buses ? * USA - CTA to cut bus cleaning time
A cut in cleaning time could mean dirtier buses for CTA passengers
Chicago,ILL,USA -ABC local/WLS -March 18, 2010: ... A spokesperson said the pilot program cuts the recommended time for deep cleaning a bus in half. The transit agency said it is adjusting the cleaning time to make better use of its resources... According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the union that represents bus workers says this will mean dirtier buses. The union has reportedly filed a grievance over the change... The CTA is dealing with a $95.6 million shortfall... (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast: A sign for No. 20 Express bus route on the CTA)Labels: dirty buses
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
DIRTY BUSES * USA - Brooklyn buses house rush hour roaches
Some Brooklyn buses are roach coaches with creepy crawlies joining riders - and one driver had a run-in with a rat
New York,NY,USA -The Daily News Brooklyn, by BRENDAN BROSH, MIKE JACCARINO & PETE DONOHUE -November 21, 2008: -- ... Drivers and riders said they're bugged out about conditions on the big rigs pulling out of the East New York depot and urged NYC Transit, which is planning a fare hike next summer, to do something... She said she had completed a run and was about to turn around and start picking up passengers in the opposite direction when the cat-sized vermin charged... (Photo: Egan-Chin/News: Susanne Jeffery talks about seeing roaches on buses)
Labels: dirty buses
Chicago,ILL,USA -ABC local/WLS -March 18, 2010: ... A spokesperson said the pilot program cuts the recommended time for deep cleaning a bus in half. The transit agency said it is adjusting the cleaning time to make better use of its resources... According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the union that represents bus workers says this will mean dirtier buses. The union has reportedly filed a grievance over the change... The CTA is dealing with a $95.6 million shortfall... (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast: A sign for No. 20 Express bus route on the CTA)
