Comments on: The Stimulus Is Done – Now What?

By: jimsf

jimsf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:35:48 +0000

well for anyone reading from out of state, $17 an hour won’t get you a studio in the ghetto in san francisco. In fact most drivers don’t live here they commute from as far away as sacramento. Yes they commute from sacramento- 2 hours, then drive a bus all day, get spit on, yelled at, assaulted, threatened, and then commute home. Not many people have what it takes to do the job, for any amount of money. Theres a reason they hire a lot of ex cons.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:32:51 +0000

ha, no gentrification here now, all those folks lost their silly “I get paid to shuffle money and worthless paper” jobs and left town.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:30:49 +0000

San diego is a cakewalk. Its such a white bread city.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:30:14 +0000

Uh I hate to tell you but its not about the route…. its about the passengers. its the ultimate thug/ghetto/crime/murder/stab you in the face route. You wanna risk your life for that pay?

By: Matthew F.

Matthew F. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:03:34 +0000

Be careful, that sounds like a lot to people who have never lived in California…

It doesn’t look like that bad a route (except for the 24-hour bit). We used to have a route in San Diego with 28 turns, 3 alternative sidings (where the pattern of sidings was different on weekends from weekdays), taking up to 2 hours to cross 28 miles of city, no freeways, mostly heavily urban or dense suburban, from one end to the other. More than once I ended up giving the bus driver directions.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060522231840/www.sdcommute.com/Rider_Information/routes/PDFs/Routes/5.pdf

Anyhow, I don’t think I’d mind driving a bus – even on-call 24/7 (though there’s no risk of THAT in San Diego…)

By: synonymouse

synonymouse — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Watch that ballot measure pass. The wages of gentrification.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:58:31 +0000

muni bus drivers starting pay is around 16-17 dollars per hour, and you stay on the worst routes with no seniority for years. raise your hand if you would drive the 14 mission, on call, at all hours for 5 years for that pay.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:51:53 +0000

San franciscans can not and will not do without muni service for one day, let alone 6 months. You don’t live in sf, so how bout you stay out of it.

By: synonymouse

synonymouse — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:46 +0000

Let the unions go out on strike and stay out on strike. It took a 6 month strike by Golden Gate Transit unions in 1976 to bring the union back to reality. They ended up with pretty much the same contract management offered intiially.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:16:16 +0000

speaking of Lahood, boy he’s mr cranky guy. the reproters are really gettin on his nerve cuz they keep askig the same questions about toyota over and over. ( I would too,)

I guess we can rule out japanese trains though, as we wouldn’t want an accelerator to stick at 220mph