In the most liberal city in America, where Public-Sector Union bus drivers make more than 747 pilots, while getting six-figure retirements, can somebody explain to me why I should give a damn?
Wasn’t the Casino supposed to be the end of all of Detroit’s money problems?
10/2011
As thousands of Detroiters wait for buses this morning, as many as 100 bus drivers for the Detroit Department of Transportation are being paid an average of $12 an hour to do nothing.
Hundreds of buses sit idle awaiting repair, so their drivers also sit idle, watching TV, playing cards or chatting with one another until their shifts end or a bus becomes available.
With about half of the fleet broken down, the city is about 100 buses short of what is needed to keep the routes on time, Mayor Dave Bing said.
Some riders who wait up to three hours for a bus trip were outraged to learn drivers are not driving, but still being paid. Drivers as a whole have accumulated more than $2 million in overtime in the last 3 1/2 months. “It’s beyond words,” Linda Cooper, a secretary who works downtown, said as she waited for a bus Friday. “I’m sickened, absolutely sickened.”
http://www.freep.com/article/20111024/NEWS01/110240433/Detroit-bus-drivers-paid-do-nothing