List Of Bus Service Cancellations This Evening
The Department of Public Transportation have advised the public of a number of bus cancellations this evening [Sept 16], and apologized for any inconvenience this may cause. The reason for the cancellations were not stated, however we have asked the Ministry and will update if able. The list of bus route cancellations is below.
Just a question but why have there been so many bus cancellations?
They do it because they can.
Here is the sickening part. There are obviously 365 days in a year. Like the rest of us, bus drivers are scheduled to work five days a week. 52 weeks minus 2 days = 104 days. 365-104 = 261 days of actual scheduled work. Deduct average of 4 weeks vacation (25 work days) and we are left with 236 days. Deduct 70 days paid sick leave and we have 166 days. And for those of you that say just because they have them doesn’t mean they use them you need to live in my neighborhood near two bus drivers. Now lets also consider there have been about 4 wildcat strikes, meetings, or marches a year that have affected or prevented them from working. Now we are left with 166 days of actual work or 5 and a half months out of a twelve that they are asked.
Let me apologize in advance to SOME drivers are there are a few that are reliable and do not take advantage of the system. Unfortunately, they are the exception and not the rule. one bad apple does not spoil the whole bunch, but when most of the apples are rotten we assume the rest are bruised and turning.
Well, at least these cancellations won’t affect people getting home from work…oh, wait!
Because Government gave ALL the money to BTA.
Because somebody lost 800million
The Department of Public Transportation….A bunch-of-amateurs!!
They would NOT last 5 minutes in the real world!!
Thanks again BIU/PLP/Ewart.
Um, we never had this problem under PLP, see the problem is you took a gamble to cut the funds for the drivers, before banking on the Furlough days to cover the Hanbury and Dodwell gift club.
Um, hey Dreamer, this all STARTED under the PLP. Obviously you never catch a bus. I do. You don’t, which is why you know nothing. FLMFAO.
Bermuda s hardships can all be placed at the feet of the plp.
Why the heck to we need cameras in our buses?? They are never on the road anyway?? I wonder what this unannounced labour dispute is over this time?? Or is it, the drivers just realized they still had some sick time due to them?? When will the government just scrap this crappy bus service and save us the TAX payers some money???
Spoken like the privileged male that you are. It provides service for the working poor, the seniors, our children AND our tourists! But yeah, just scrap it cause no one cares about those people.
That’s why its called Public Transportation because Mostly public school children catch the bus, with the exception of B.I. and a few from W.A.
Plp certainly don’t care about those people.
PRIVATIZE!
More unauthorised time off!
So basically there is No Service for all the hard working people who depend on public transport to get home from work. I guess there is a very important meeting going on somewhere. They still get paid you know, as their brothers and sisters work in the Accountant General’s Office and authorize the payroll cheques. One day we will all wake up.
At yet some of the bus drivers on my route can’t seem to figure out why some passengers don’t reply back when (and if) they say Good Evening. You have ruined too many of my rides home. Thank goodness my children are older now. I feel for the parents with children that were left stranded AGAIN because of the PTB and /or Unions. I await an answer as to why routes were cancelled. Was it a Union “meeting” that had to be held now, was it equipment failure, or bad management. I hope that with that many different routes being affected that it wasn’t equipment failure. I hate to think that that many buses broke down at once. Time will tell.
Blame the funding cut for bus drivers to finance the Hanbury and Dodwell gift club.
Nah, blame the 70 days sick leave plus carry forward what you don’t use.
So there goes the abusive sick days theory out the window.
Here we go again….
Just as long as they get their 70 days sick leave a year. That’s what’s important.
It’s not pretend sniff, sniff, cough, cough Flew season yet is it? I need to get me some sniffling, sneezing\, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so I can rest medicine! Going to Caesar’s Pharmacy to get me some Nyquil!
Or let me guess, the union isn’t happy because the minister did not show up to a meeting after being told that he wasn’t invited. Furbert got skunked and lost some of his chinas so he picking up his marbles and going home in anger!
I hope this is equipment related or even hoping for mis-management. I hate to think its another silly labour dispute. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop listening and nobody stops running.
nobody comes running.
They are trying to retrofit those tyres that we’re the wrong size it’s going to take a while.
Why does this happen during cruise ship season? I never heard of SIGHTSEEING BUSES getting cancelled.
I say … The Trans&Tourism minister needs to take responsibility for the transport mess in this country . Well maybe not , after all it’s the OBA that’s running the show these days .
Lying again coffee???? The BIU needs to take responsibility for the transportation mess we have!!!!!
@kangocar … If your telling the truth , you give credence to the belief that the OBA is a weak government . No union in the world controls the operations of a government department .
Only in Bermuda coffee … Only in Bermuda
Privatise.
Laughable you are mate.
If you Dreamers were paying attention during the budget cuts, they cut the funds for bus drivers, hoped that the Furlough days would continue, to fund the Hanbury and Dodwell gift club to spend like drunken sailors.
Hey Dreamer, there were service cuts like this during 2010, 2011 and 2012.
No public employee ever loses their job, remember?
They’re just taking their vacation , oh no I mean 70 days sick leave. LMFAO.
No Dreamer, they don’t want to pay them the overtime, so that’s why we have this problem.
Yes Coffee, the OBA , like the PLP are running things. It s the BIU that is disrupting things or drivers calling in sick ;not to be confused with actually being sick. I just hope this time its not them again. I’m just crossing my fingers that this is a product of too many broken buses, legitimate illness or something else, although I can think of what.
Nope … The OBA is in charge … Fully . The buck stops with them . The other organizations are at this point irrelevant .
Ahhhh, and there it is. The union and their members can disrupt public services, and it’s the Government’s fault. Wrong.
I said on day one of the OBA winning the election (oooo, that hurts eh?), that the unions and their members will do all they can do disrupt the day to day running of the country. That is what we are seeing.
How did the collection for Hayward go yesterday at the Public Works half day off the taxpayers expense at Clearwater?
You said it they are irrelevant .Bermudians are smart we will hold to account anyone that’s wants to destroy Bermuda . The wheels of justice run slow but they are gaining momentum daily To anyone responsible for Bermuda demise karma gonna get you.
Ya well its easy to blame the oba when the plp/union instructs its workers to walkout/sickout inna?! Dont even try and deny it. Anyone with a brain knows whats goin on so go lay down. Better yet get back to fri@@in work. Bunch of lazy good for nothings.
What can the OBA do if the unions encourage their drivers to call in sick, then prohibit any punitive action?
The workers dictate to the unions not vice versa . The collective bargaining agreement governs any actions decided upon by workers , government , union , employers … Try again !
The workers dictated they wanted a 17% union dues price increase, did they?
God help us
This is where the similarity rubber for the OBA meets the road! They are no better than the PLP at running public transport!
!.) Monitors at bus depot, purchased at great cost to the public Treasury, to display schedules still not working…AFTER breaking down 4 years ago!
2.) Paper based bus schedules not available, not even from the PTB booth where 2, yes 2 people work making change for ticket purchasers!
3) Can no one at PTB use a spreadsheet even to create and print off schedules for posting around the terminal. 4.) Why no automated ticket dispensing machines! they are available in every city in the world!!
Bus service need to get a wake up call…Filipino bus drivers will likely do the trick!
Axlerod you are soooo right: “Bus service need to get a wake up call…Filipino bus drivers will likely do the trick.”
Putting all jokes aside, can’t you not see this is just a prelude to and all public transportation strike put on by B.I.U. and other Unions just to disrupt the upcoming America’s Cup? Shame yes, but true
You do not know what you’re talking about. You have something against the BIU. Look at your own church members who are doing wrong.
Spread sheet! Those are used for sick days, vacation days and strike out days..
Pathetic, privatize it see how dey act then.
This puts stress on drivers as well as passengers. I travelled on yesterday evening’s buses and would like to thank the drivers who did their very best to accommodate students, commuters and tourists.
This is obviously an unauthorised plan of strike action. It’s disgraceful and speaks to the mindset of workers and unions who refuse to honour an honest work ethic. Note the time of these cancellations. They affect many people trying to get home after work. Our people hurting our people as usual….we just don’t get it and that’s why I no longer put my hard earned money in a Bermuda union.
What does that have to do with the Government? Surely that’s down to the employees of the Ministry of Transport to sort out? If they are unable to do their job, then maybe get rid of them and replace them with people who can? What does their Permanent Secretary do all day?
I don’t remember any bus cancellations during the summer (when there was vacation time) but now the schools are back it all starts again …. coincidence in the timing?
Why do they cancel the busiest routes at the busiest time?
At least they announced it this time. Several bus routes did not run on the 15th. I was waiting at East Broadway from 5:30 to 6:45 for the number 8 bus. Only 2 went by in that time period and both were full, due to the cancelled routes.
This is getting ridiculous! The fares go up and the service goes down. Would you pay 20% more for the same carton of milk or for the same meal and not blink an eye? This is no longer acceptable. As passengers, we need to do something or nothing will change!
Can I get back my $69 please
When is the OBA going to grow a pair & start applying the recommendations of the, not cheap to the taxpayer, SAGE Commission?
Privatise public transport. Get rid of the inept PTB & the lazy over compensated drivers.
By Privatising the bus service they still can become unionized so go ahead and carry on..I am not mad at the bus drivers!!!!
this country needs the likes of a Margaret Thatcher to deal with these unions.