Posted on 09/13/2010 6:03:19 AM PDT by Willie Green
Four people are dead and over 20 more injured after a double-decker Megabus crashed into a bridge near Syracuse. The bus driver, who was taking passengers from Philadelphia to Toronto, reportedly got lost and took a route with height restrictions. While on the Onondaga Lake Parkway, the 13-foot bus slammed into the 10-foot, 9-inch high CSX railroad bridge and flipped. Passenger Reena Rai told the Daily News, "The next thing I knew there was a lady on top of me and her blood was just dripping on top of me profusely. I yelled, 'Help, help!'"
Three men and an 18-year-old woman were killed in the crash, and a New York City woman is among the injured. Most of the seriously injured were sitting on the bus' upper deck. Rai said she usually likes sitting in front in upper deck, but chose to sit in the back of the top level this trip. "This was the only time I said, ‘Let’s try the back seat for a change.' I was very, very lucky.”
Public transportation.
let’s see what the drivers name is........
Tomaszewski, 59, who received his commercial driver’s license in December and began driving for Megabus in the spring, has not told sheriff’s investigators why he missed several warning signs before hitting the bridge
My Goddaughter takes the Megabus from Chicago to Detroit twice a year. Always a quick and safe trip.
My daughters and I are planning a trip on them this year. This is the first I’ve heard of an accident on them.
Megabus Boston to downtown New York, 9$-13$ with free Wi-Fi.
Non Union.
Profit and tax paying.
Non subsidized by non users.
Amtrack? Lowest fare? 61$ ( 400% higher than private Megabus, and with say a subsidy from Fedgov, of say, minimum, 30$, making the unsubidized price of 91$, that would make Amtrack 700% MORE expensive. If at Megabus’s 9$ fare, Amtrack’s lowest fare is 1,000% higher )
And, this is on Amtracks best fit Boston/Washington corridor.
Choo-Choo....All Aboard The Socialist Express!
The 24-year-old Boston trolley driver who allegedly was texting his girlfriend when he slammed into another trolley last week was hired as a minority because of his transgender status, according to a state transportation official.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo told ABC News that there was “nothing unusual” in the hiring of Alden Quinn, and that he was picked out of a hiring lottery in 2004.
Another MBTA source said, “Quinn was initially hired as a minority and used her transgender status,” ABC News reported.
The driver, originally known as Georgia Quinn, underwent a female-to-male sex change and switched the sexual designation on his driver’s license, FOX News has confirmed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519940,00.html
It seems like buses nowadays would come equipped with a simple GPS. Simply issuing them a Garmin they could suction cup to the windshield would be inexpensive and solve any problems a driver might have with getting lost or having to reroute due to construction, etc.
they were using a GPS ;
If it weren’t for these GD trains all over the place, there would not have been a trestle for the bus to hit!
It seems like buses nowadays would come equipped with a simple GPS. Simply issuing them a Garmin they could suction cup to the windshield would be inexpensive and solve any problems a driver might have with getting lost or having to reroute due to construction, etc.
I'm not sufficiently familiar with those products to know if they contain advanced features that would be useful for commercial drivers.
In particular, do you know if they can be programmed to avoid routes based on specific height/weight restrictions???
If so, I think you have an excellent common-sense idea that should be mandatory for all commercial vehicles.
Well, so much for Herrnstein and Murray and the Bell Curve.
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