Dan Christensen comments on the baby bus incident

1. It is not abuse of anyone if they get off the bus. Unless it puts them in danger, bad weather, or the last bus and you strand them. Waiting for the next bus is not... NOT abuse. those who think so have to do a priority check.
2. If the child is distracting the driver with crying.. then the child is distracting the driver.. just like a cell phone or a kindle. Distraction is distraction. A bus has to roll safe.

As a bus driver I would have elected to simply pull over the bus, called it in, and got out of the bus. Can't drive when you are distracted, so just wait. Then again I was not in that drivers shoes so I don't know what was going on. Every other week or so I have a crying child on the bus, that's a lot of children crying in a year times that by every bus driver and you have a lot of opportunities for this to happen. That it does not happen often is proof that most of the time a driver just grinds it out.
There are a few question I would ask the typical Trimet Haters that are talking here.
1. Are you saying under no condition can a child be distracting to the safe operation of a bus?
2. If crying children are not a distraction can we include then in the cockpit of a plane that is landing or taking off and see if that effects pilots?
3. Getting off a bus wether by choice or by request is not immoral it is implied. Everyone who gets on get's out sometimes. Is it only moral if they get out at there stop? is it only safe if they get out at there stop? does someone face drastically more dangers if they get off the stop before? Everyone gets out of a bus. If the bus broke down and had to be taken out of serves and this mom with a child waited for another bus would the world now be decrying this as a sign of the end times?
I was not there, I have no clue what it was like for that driver on that day. Since humans drive busses and everyone is different and has a different situation it's hard to me for know what was going on. This may not have been the best solution but answer this.
If the child was crying and the driver was distracted and that caused an accident... never mind most of you would just be blaming the driver again... I guess thats a bad example.
Maybe we should do a test force drivers to listen to soft music on an iPod and force others to listen to a crying baby recording and see who is driving safer...