Why Is This Price Gouging 856There's no simple answer to this question. Tied up in it are a whole collection of legal, ethical, and cultural issues. There is a cultural idea, which is to some extent... NYC Transit workers should be fired 859It's happened. So I left and found somebody else to whom I was worth it. That would be my problem, it wouldn't give me the right to coerce anybody else to pay me what I...
Hey folks (and accident lawyers) did you ever notice that the strip on the back door of buses which opens the door after the driver unlocks it is the same color as the "bell" or "stop" signal on the sides of buses. Yet when you press the "bell" you will signal the driver to stop at the next stop. BUT when you press the same colored strip on the BACK DOOR you will sometimes LITERALLY make the bus come to an immediate full stop setting off the brakes! How is that? Well buses have a device called an "Interlock" that is to prevent the bus from moving when the rear door is opened. Good idea however many interlocks are to sensitive that is why you are not to stand in the rear stair well. Well have you ever been on a bus that makes a turn or while leaving a bus stop and the BRAKE comes of full forece? It wasn't the driver! No the brake went on suddenly due to a defective interlock. NOW THE STUPID MTA actually as actually uses the "SAME COLOR STRIPS" for both the "stop signal" and the "open rear door" pbuttenger switch. By you making the mistake of pushing that while the bus is in motion you could in effect set off the BUS BRAKES! $ Did you or a family member ever experience WHIP LASH while on a bus that stopped sudenly? This could be the MTA fault as a pbuttenger could have mistakenly set off the BRAKES by pushing that strip on a bus that had a miscalulated interlock. $ Where you ever driving or riding in a car behind an MTA bus that suddenly stopped and you or a pbuttenger got a WHIPLASH injury do the sudden bus stoppage. It might not be the driver that set off the brake. MTA lets pbuttagers in effect drive their buses due to this problem. LAWYERS NOTE: While not all buses have defective interlocks you would at least think the MTA would use DIFFERENT COLOR strips for their "stop or pbuttenger bell signal" that did not match the same look and color of the REAR DOOR OPEN SWITCH. Pbuttengers constantly mistate these two "strips". The result can be disasterous! The MTA should (1) not allow buses with defective interlocks to leave the yard. (2) as a second line of defense not allow the REAR DOOR STRIP to be the same color of the STOP BUS SIGNAL. Why not question the Bus Operator when you do "discovery" and let him know you are not out to hurt him but the employer who makes him drive defective buses. AFTER ALL THE BUS OP ALREADY WAS JUDGED TO BE GUILTY OF THE ACCIDENT BY AN INTERIOR JUDICIAL PROCESS. When you see him-her in court this fact is hidden from you. So directly ask the driver this. We are treated as slaves and afraid to drive unsafe buses but even more afraid to refuse such a bus. In the long run you will be late for your trip and pbuttengers will be sreaming at you making you more vulnerable to even MORE accidents and dismissal. Just a "$afety TORT for MTA".
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