This is my response to Harry:
The case was closed out because they didn't hear what I was saying!
Let me try again.
Neil Macfarlane has said safety is too be a "cultural" value.
That means every aspect of our operation must have safety as its #1 concern.
With that said, having a road relief with no time programmed into the relief for an operator to set up the bus FOR SAFETY before hitting the road is NOT SAFE!
The institutionalization of "putting enough time into the route" to make up for things like this is DEFECTIVE!
The thinking needs to change.
That is what Neil Macfarlane has been preaching is it not?
Al Margulies
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We have the same issue here at MetroKC - often there is 1 minute or less to do a road relief, and yet I think if you want to get technical each oncoming Operator should (legally) be doing a full pre-trip, if for no other reason than to check for damage that may have occurred while the other Operator was driving.
WES is mandated to do a full "brake check" for each trip, and is given a 10 minute layover at Beaverton and a 26 minute layover at Wilsonville, with TriMet's full backing (and financial support).
This is, after, a 27 minute trip between Beaverton and Wilsonville.
Surely, bus operators deserve as much if not more...especially for those dreaded Operators who run a full 12 trip from Sherwood to Gresham, nearly two hours, with part of the trip during the rush hour - how is it safe NOT to give them any less than a full personal break at the end of the run, PLUS time to check out the bus and whathavenot before starting a new run?
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