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Monday, February 13, 2012

FASCINATING ARTICLE

“On an average day we’ll have 495 buses in service,” James K. Farasey, RTC’s superintendent of transportation, told the Democrat and Chronicle in March 1943. “Thirty more are being overhauled. Because priorities make it difficult to get parts, a bus may be laid up for as much as two or three weeks.”
Moreover, drivers kept getting drafted into the military.
Finding replacements was tough, Farasey explained. Because peak hours were in the early morning and late afternoon, the bus service frequently had its drivers work split shifts. “Older men (exempt from the draft) don’t like that. They’d rather go into war plants where they have a straight eight-hour trick.
In other words, more and more people were trying to catch fewer and fewer buses.
Talk about a “perfect storm”!

Bus service was overwhelmed, pushed to limit | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com

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