Miami Herald:
On the Bus in Miami-Dade, and Not Happy About It
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Gimenez goes back on his word on transit, yet again...
- Taxpayers are paying the price...
- Gimenez got us sitting in traffic...
- Enough is ENOUGH! Recall Gimenez!
On a recent
Thursday morning, Javier Zerpa waited at the bus stop for a familiar ritual:
watching the 27 bus miss its arrival time. The advertised 7:54 a.m. stop came
and went, then the 8:09 a.m., then the 8:24 a.m. and finally the 8:39 a.m.
“Forget the
schedule,” said Zerpa, who catches the 27 to the
Coconut Grove Metrorail station for the train that takes him to a banking job
on Brickell Avenue. “The schedule doesn’t work.”
Zerpa has company
in wondering where the 27 bus might be on its daily journey up and down 27th
Avenue. Since the start of 2014, the route has
received more than 300 complaints of missing or late buses.
Mayor Carlos Gimenez has pledged to usher in an era of
cleaner and more efficient buses in Florida’s largest transit system, thanks to
an influx of new vehicles, technological upgrades, more scrubbing and a
reworking of route maps and schedules. Bus passengers have offered thousands of
reasons why creating more enticing buses would be so welcome and the task so
difficult.
The Miami
Herald requested all complaints filed by bus passengers since
the start of 2014. Through July of this year, there were nearly 27,000 of them
registered via email, online and call center. That’s roughly 47 per day, offering
the most detailed look available at what irks, enrages and horrifies the
system’s 210,000 daily passengers.
On a December
morning somewhere between South Miami and Florida City, a passenger on
the 38 Express bus
reported two cockroaches crawling on her baby. In early February, someone
on Little Havana’s 207 bus complained
of an operator driving six blocks down Seventh Avenue “eating a fruit cup with
a spoon the whole ride.”
27,000
Number of complaints in the Herald’s database!
Read the rest of the story here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/traffic/article43207062.html
READ THE HOW ON RECALL:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/here-are-the-steps-to-recall-a-miami-dade-mayor-in-case-anyone-wants-them-9098280
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/here-are-the-steps-to-recall-a-miami-dade-mayor-in-case-anyone-wants-them-9098280
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