Saturday, April 2, 2011
You thought you had infrequent service?
British bus runs only 4 times a year (the 5th Tuesday of the month, and only a few months will have that many Tuesdays).
Suddenly my lack of TriMet bus service on weekends doesn't look so bad...
HARRY SAPORTA ACTUALLY GIVES ME A DECENT ANSWER ABOUT MY SAFETY ISSUE
Al,
Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention. I will look into the time allocation for relief operators. I will also be placing this issue in the Request for Safety Assessment (RSA) system. I will be sure to get back to you next week with an update.
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: Margulies, Al
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:59 PM
To: Saporta, Harry
Subject: Safety concern
I am aware that you have now started in your position as the safety director.
I want you to know that road reliefs that have no time built into the relief so a bus operator can properly set up a bus (adjust seat, mirror, etc)are a definite safety hazard. Operators that are forced to leave the relief late will feel pressure from schedule and operators that do not take the time to do the proper adjustments risk increased chance of accident.
Maybe you can do something about this.
Al Margulies
2387
REMEMBER JOSE MEJA POOT?
I sure do, like it was yesterday. This whole tragedy started over a fare on one of our buses, if i remember correctly, was 25 cents short.
It turned into a police call, they hauled him off to jail, then to the mental hospital, where he was killed by the police which then closed down the hospital.
I was very embarrassed that one of our bus drivers created this mess over chump change.
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2011/04/01/somber-anniversary-a-decade-since-the-police-shooting-of-jose-mejia-poot
It turned into a police call, they hauled him off to jail, then to the mental hospital, where he was killed by the police which then closed down the hospital.
I was very embarrassed that one of our bus drivers created this mess over chump change.
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2011/04/01/somber-anniversary-a-decade-since-the-police-shooting-of-jose-mejia-poot
Dispelling the Myths of light rail
Light rail transit (LRT) has become a fad among urban planners in mid-sized North American cities. They argue that LRT is a happy medium between buses and subways. In reality, LRT combines the disadvantages of both. LRT is slow, inflexible and expensive. Moreover, the CTrain has exacerbated the very problem it is meant to fix: rampant urban sprawl.
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3704
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3704
The high cost of Calgary’s low-cost transit
The episode, aside from the awfulness of the accident, highlighted one of the costs of a city grown dependent on commuter rail. When serious disruptions occur, the repercussions can be enormous: tens of thousands of people can be made late for work or appointments when a train crashes into an automobile, as happens occasionally, or when a pedestrian is seriously injured or killed on the track, which, sadly, seems to happen nearly as often. It makes it all the more urgent to consider a report put out this week by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy providing a critical analysis of the costs of Calgary’s widely celebrated C-Train system and recommending that its expansion be halted in favour of more flexible, responsive and affordable alternatives. It’s something other cities, most of which these days seem to be fixated on LRT build-outs, should seriously consider, too.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/01/kevin-libin-the-high-cost-of-calgarys-low-cost-transit/
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/01/kevin-libin-the-high-cost-of-calgarys-low-cost-transit/
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