Capital Metro bus drivers

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Originally Posted by Reggieray

Take out "gets crowded". I make it a point to look inside very bus I drive by to see how bad cap metro and the city are screwing us and and it's easily 9 out of 10 have no more than two persons riding in it. No different than the diesel train they pushed through. Empty empty empty. But,, hey they always need more money every year.

People who commute by bus every single day for their 9-5 jobs know differently. FULL FULL FULL.

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Originally Posted by LongLiveCassettes

Such as lowering the fare? When you lower the fare, you speed up the buses, and increase ridership.
But Capital Metro believes in less ridership and more federal subsidies.
Seen the Rapid buses? EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY. The only people who ride it are the UT Entitlements.

I have ridden the MetroRapid bus almost every day from North Lamar to the Capitol since the first day it started. It is almost always stuffed full. I work downtown. It's quite nice.

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Originally Posted by hardhead512

I hate the fact that Capital Metro bus driver think they
can tell me what to do. I was abroading bus
2o manor with my step son and the bus driv er
told my boy he should have the money ready
(He already had two dollars folded in his hand)
She said it in a rude way. I was like.
you don't tell my 12year old notting. And
I made a commit that the bus was 15 minutes
Late, the bus driver was like you can wait
for the next one. I think she was just trying. To
rush because she was behind schedule.

And also I hate that they don't even wait
for people sit down before they drive off.
I seen an old man fall he must of been
like 70. A pregnet lady fall to one nee cuz
the bus took off before she sat down.
1. Time I seen a lil boy like 6 0r 7 fall and hit
his head on a metal seat. Big bump on his
for head. And the driver didn't even got
out of his seat to see if the boy was ok.

Last. Thing. Also if a bus driver See's you
running or trying to flag.them down they should
stop n wait for you. Its just good krama
Public transportation should comadate to the
Public. Please. People make the call to their
office and report there wrongs doings.

All I can say is there are good bus drivers and there are bad bus drivers. And there are good ones that are having a bad day or behind schedule. They are human beings doing a difficult job. Most of them are kind and helpful.

I do call CapMetro to report egregiously bad behaviors.