Stuck on the Transit Mall

Disabled Troubles

Broken Beer Bottles on the Bus

RATS

Transit bus driver arrested after fight

BALTIMORE -- The Maryland Transit Administration is investigating an assault on an MTA bus that ended with a passenger being stabbed and an operator taken into custody.

Other interesting stuff from around the internet

A real ad from Denmark-something you will never see in the uptight US of A-(adult)
The owl and the pussycat
The rapture
9 Things That Might Disappear In Our Lifetime.
Top 10 signs asking for change
Bedtime lullaby-adult

Yours truly

Another loss for ATU president Jon Hunt

Road supervisor district map

Trimet facilities map

drivers talk about life on the job

But they told me that, in New York, if a passenger wants to file a complaint against a transit operator, he or she is charged a fee; the fee is refundable if the complaint is valid.

Good idea.
I asked them about food and drink, because a streetcar is a pigsty by day’s end, and also because a woman once spilled hot tea down my back, and I remember her every time I’m in the aisle seat and the person standing over me is drinking something over my head. They agreed that food on transit wrong. They also figure that bus has left the station.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1012734--fiorito-three-ttc-drivers-talk-about-life-on-the-job 
Fiorito: Let’s show the TTC a little tenderness - thestar.com

NYC's billionaire mayor wants to implement "austerity"

New Yorkers Occupy Streets to Protest Budget Cuts | Truthout

New York Votes to Allow Same-Sex Marriage

http://www.truth-out.org/new-york-votes-allow-same-sex-marriage/1308970419

BLASTS FROM THE PAST

Remember when they decided to change our uniforms? The management got really mean about this (not surprising of course) and there were multiple examples of things that "may" be OK to wear, but then again "may not" be OK to wear. In this little sequence I try to figure out what I can wear without getting written up.

The shirts
The pants
The other stuff

Common Man News Reports

Common Man News: America, land of the free to go hungry
Common Man News: hy is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska?
Common Man News: Why Are Food Prices Rising So Fast?
Common Man News: 7 surprising things you're not supposed to know about sunscreen and sunlight exposure
Common Man News: Half of World's Refugees are Running From US Wars
Germany is growing much faster than the United States. Its unemployment rate is now only 6.1 percent (we’re now at 9.1 percent).
What’s Germany’s secret? In sharp contrast to the decades of stagnant wages in America, real average hourly pay has risen almost 30 percent there since 1985. Germany has been investing substantially in education and infrastructure.
How did German workers do it? A big part of the story is German labor unions are still powerful enough to insist that German workers get their fair share of the economy’s gains.
That’s why pay at the top in Germany hasn’t risen any faster than pay in the middle. As David Leonhardt reported in the New York Times recently, the top 1 percent of German households earns about 11 percent of all income – a percent that hasn’t changed in four decades.
Common Man News: Why the Republican War on Workers' Rights Undermines the American Economy

Amtrak crash in Nevada

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/reports-on-the-amtrak-crash-in-nevada/

How far West will Internet censorship move?

A Perspective from Portland, Oregon: "' While few might object to blocking child pornography, what happens when the filters go after politically sensitive content? Will anyone ob..."

TSA workers unionize

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304569504576403730763020802.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Greece comes to Conneticut

http://www.businessinsider.com/connecticut-unions-reject-concessions-thousands-of-public-sector-layoffs-likely-2011-6

Wisconsin Judge Prossner chokes associate judge

Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed one of his colleagues around the neck prior to the court's recent decision to allow controversial restrictions on unions to take effect, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/25/david-prosser-ann-bradley-wisconsin-union-law_n_884516.html

British elite trying to crack down on unions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8598912/New-crackdown-on-militant-unions.html

Bus-sized asteroid to pass close to Earth

The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres above Earth's surface at around 6.56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bussized-asteroid-to-pass-close-to-earth/162814-2.html

The big green bus

The Big Green Bus is the work of 13 students at Dartmouth College. The modified Greyhound runs on a unique propulsion system that uses vegetable oil instead of fossil fuels along with solar panels to provide electricity. Each year a different group of students climbs aboard and spends the summer driving across the country and teaching people about sustainability.
http://www.thedailystamford.com/news/big-green-bus-brings-ideas-fairfield

Remembering Jim Stenger

The following is an excerpt from one of Jim Stenger's slander blogs, all now defunct.

Michael's Life Living with *****: December 13, 2009 Sunday Morning
By Michael Oliver
The weather has been freezing here in Portland all weekend. Friday night we did stay in. Made salad and a Cornish hen for dinner. Saturday, since it was so nice outside, we took a drive in the afternoon along the Willamette front in the 65 Cadillac ... Present I work for Trimet as a operator for the lightrail system. I live in Beaverton, Oregon. On January 7th, 2009 I was **************. I hope my daily strengths and struggles will help you with yours. ...
Michael's Life Living with - http://nextminority.blogspot.com/

QUOTES

"The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer it will go to India. If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car it will go to Germany. If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part."
(Mark Faber)