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Monday, January 11, 2010

Do Bus Drivers Run Their Companies?

About 2 weeks ago one gentle that wanted to get to Blackett/Emerton area was confused when he reached Mount Druitt, got on the Busways 758 as the elderly bus driver advised the gentleman to to get this bus.

Traveling on the bus, the man was saying how bad it was to change bus services and confuse him - He asked who was the decision maker? I explained my position with our group and that everyone is finger pointing each other - Bus operaters blame the NSW Government, The NSW Government blames NSW Ministery of Transport and Bus Operaters , The NSW Ministery of Transport blames the bus operaters as they are the ones requesting these route changes.

In practice what happens in our area : bus operaters place their request for bus services - Ministry of transport ratifies these decisions via an annual Transport Review Panel - which is then agreed to by the entire NSW parliamentary members. So who is to blame for changes work this out yourself, now!

Anyway, the bus driver overheard this conversation and said from what he heard from the NSW Government and bus operaters that the community will never get their buses back! I advised that is ridiculous to foreclose on matter before being decoded on! The driver didn't care much and the commuter was upset about the drivers comments as it was said in a way that you felt the community has no say - maybe the bus driver runs the bus company not the managers! We do know he know that he runs the bus he is driving!

Let's tell each of our bus drivers that we want the old services back - they need to let their managers how we all feel!!!! They might get sick of us says it but we sick enough of the services being deleted from under our noes!

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