Comments on: Snowy Drive Home http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2009/01/snowy-drive-home/ Because sometimes I do things that are interesting. Fri, 18 May 2012 11:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jen http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2009/01/snowy-drive-home/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Jen Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0000 http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=156#comment-55 Oh, I've been defending them most of the time. They never picketed or blocked access to exams or hockey games, they don't hand-pick their schedules, and the Reagan approach would cripple the system completely -- if you fired everyone, who would you hire? As it is, something like fewer than 20% of applicants actually make it through the entire training and so on, because not everyone can or should drive buses, taxis, and other forms of public transportation. Check out ottawatransitstrike.ca or community.livejournal.com/octranspo for better information on this. It may not make you a supporter of the drivers, but it'll give you better information than what's up on the cbc and ctv sites. Oh, I’ve been defending them most of the time. They never picketed or blocked access to exams or hockey games, they don’t hand-pick their schedules, and the Reagan approach would cripple the system completely — if you fired everyone, who would you hire? As it is, something like fewer than 20% of applicants actually make it through the entire training and so on, because not everyone can or should drive buses, taxis, and other forms of public transportation.

Check out ottawatransitstrike.ca or community.livejournal.com/octranspo for better information on this. It may not make you a supporter of the drivers, but it’ll give you better information than what’s up on the cbc and ctv sites.

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