01-29-2020, 01:54 PM
(01-29-2020, 01:12 PM)KevinL Wrote: >they need one full week to inspect every bus
That sounds... excessive.
I thought I read somewhere that they have around 700 employees and 260 buses or similar numbers. So each bus needs 3 person-weeks of labour to inspect? Now I don’t actually know what exactly is involved in the inspection — maybe most of the work has to be done by mechanics, not drivers — but these buses haven’t been hauled out of a lake after sitting underwater for a month, they just haven’t been driven for a few days. This is way excessive.
Wait, how can this work at all? By the end of the week, the first-checked buses will have been sitting for almost as long as they already have, and will need to be inspected again!
Shouldn’t they have had supervisors take each bus for a 1-hour spin each day during the strike? Maybe maintain low frequency service on the iXPress spine? I know when Canada Post strikes supervisors take over and do what they can.
Also, does anybody know anything about what is different about the new agreement?