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Re: MTA Planned Budget Cuts to Buses (Local and Express) |
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Posted by JAzumah on Tue Nov 18 15:30:28 2008, in response to Re: MTA Planned Budget Cuts to Buses (Local and Express), posted by Operator3319 on Tue Nov 18 15:18:30 2008. Why not.If they put it under MTA Bus, the losses may be reimbursable. After all, the city is balking at paying more money for it. You can cut down regular bus service and shift surplus drivers to AAR. You can even start ALL drivers in AAR and advance them through to mainline, err 30'-40'-45'-60' buses later. Best of all, you can pool all of the city subsidized operations in one house so that if the city gets funny with the money, you simply park buses. It is also an open secret that the contractors now can't find enough drivers. So, the MTA can take over the program and hire directly, self insure the buses and have non-CDL operators run them in the future at a lower pay scale. Once you get your CDL, you get bumped up. Do 500 hours at AAR and you are eligible to move up to MTA Bus and/or NYCT. |
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