Bus driver fired for slow driving

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Bus driver fired for slow driving



LAVAL, Que. — A veteran city bus driver says he was fired from his suburban Montreal route for driving too slowly.

Laval's transit agency says Gaetan Morin was causing excessive delays, but Morin insists he was just keeping passengers safe.

"I don't have to go 50 km/h to ride on someone's back to save five minutes," Morin told QMI Agency.

His bosses don't see things the same way. A spokesman said Morin caused numerous delays at various bus stops, leading them to show him the door.

In his dismissal letter, the agency also made several complaints about Morin's work history, including cases of disrespect and insubordination.

Morin's union said it's difficult for drivers to keep to the schedule on certain routes but the transit agency denies it pressures drivers to put the pedal to the metal.

source: Bus driver fired for slow driving | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

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This guy needs to come work for the trucking company I work for.. he would love it.. I'm paid hourly and the company nuts the truck to 98/km per hr.

Not a bad gig.. boring as hell..but pays well.
 
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B00Mer said:
No, just common sense..

Something you obviously lack with your childish responses in this thread. Trolling.. tisk tisk
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Oh, dear. You really need to get over the notion that "common sense" even exists in the same universe as the law.

That was a kinda half-hearted reach-out, Boom. Work with me here.
 
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Woman fined $219 for not paying bus fare with exact change



When Pauline Tantost was kicked off a Montreal city bus last week for not paying her fare with exact change, she was shocked. And then a transit inspector handed her a ticket with a $219 fine for not paying her fare.

With her two-year-old son, Xavier, in her arms, she had boarded the 108 Bannantyne bus home to Verdun around 10 p.m. after having spent five hours at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She boarded the vehicle near Atwater Avenue and Ste-Catherine Street West.

She searched through her purse for $3 in change for the fare, but only came up with a $5 bill. She said she offered it to the driver, who refused because the fare machine doesn’t accept bills.

He warned her that failure to pay a fare could be bad news if the bus was to get inspected. Then the bus took off with Tantost and her son on board, while she clutched the $5 in her hand.

Two inspectors boarded the bus in Verdun at Bannantyne Street and Fourth Avenue, several stops before Tantost’s home. An employee of the STM later told her that it was purely a coincidence that the bus was inspected.

“I find that suspicious,” Tantost said.

A passenger on the bus, Darlene Cousins-Larsen, said one inspector entered the bus by the front door while got on in the back.

“They went right to the woman who was sitting behind the bus driver with the child. She had to get off the bus,” Cousins-Larsen said.

She said another woman on the bus with an invalid ticket was given a warning.

Cousins-Larsen approached the bus driver and offered to pay the woman’s fare, but was shrugged off by the driver and inspectors.

“He said, ‘No no, it's OK, it's free.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, OK, they were just giving her a warning,’” she said.

Instead, Tantost was handed a $219 fine for not paying her fare.

Embarrassed, she got off the bus with her son and stood on the sidewalk in tears. She walked the rest of the way home.

“I think they showed a lack of humanity and a lack of kindness,” she said.

Tantost said she told the inspectors she would contest the fine, words that according to her were met with a laugh and a comment about how the only benefit of that would be the overtime the STM employee treating the file would earn.

The STM declined to comment.


Woman fined $219 for not paying bus fare with exact change - Montreal - CBC News
 
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