FloriDUH state senator doesn't like city buses...

[Archae]

GOP, naturally.

State Sen. Alan Hays' bill to keep public buses from stopping on streets is absurd

The head of the county's bus service and the director of transportation planning for the region were summoned to the office of state Sen. Alan Hays on Sept. 11.

The Umatilla Republican was not happy.

The pair said he was blustering and visibly angry as he told this story to illustrate his desire to keep transit buses from stopping on roads to let passengers on and off:

Hays had been driving on Bay Street in Eustis behind a LakeXpress public bus when it pulled toward the side of the road to pick up and discharge passengers. But the bus wasn't completely off the road, and Hays couldn't go around it.

So there sat the senator behind the wheel, steaming at the delay.

The two public transportation advocates figured the senator was just blowing off some frustration.

But, no.

"He was very agitated, so I just listened," said Dottie Keedy, Lake County's director of community services, which operates the public transit system. "He said he wasn't going to take it anymore, and if I didn't do something, he would."

So, Keedy did something. She sent him copies of Florida laws that were developed because public transportation is desirable — it reduces traffic, provides a way for the poor and handicapped to get around the community and is environmentally better than individual cars. The laws are specific about motorists yielding to buses on public streets, and they detail the rights of buses to be there.

Then Hays did something, too. He filed Senate Bill 158, which seeks to prohibit buses from stopping on public streets.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-03-03/news/os-lk-lauren-ritchie-alan-hays-buses-20130303_1_bus-service-buses-passengers

[Warpy]

1. What a crybaby!

Just where the hell does he suggest they stop to let people on and off? Or does he suggest that the buses would be more efficient if they didn't have all those pesky riders with places to go?

I strongly suggest Mr. Hays get himself a bicycle. Not only is it environmentally friendly personal transportation, he'll be able to get around those annoying city buses when they stop to let those annoying poor folks on and off.

Asshole.

[Wait Wut]

2. I need to become an elected official.

That way, I can introduce ridiculous bills to eradicate the things that annoy me. I'll start with dumbfucks that think they're the most important people on the road and want people to jump on and off moving busses. I'll call it the AntiDumbfuckery bill.

[Scootaloo]

3. Hateful, self-centered, misanthropist cock.

Typical republican.

[Angry Dragon]

4. massive idiot

[Demoiselle]

5. This kind of story brings out the Luddite in me.

Mr. Hays, on the other hand, is an asshole.
Is there some kind of national organization out there that works to support public transportation? Ie., busses, trolleys, commuter trains, etc. I'll join it, if it exists!

[cali]

6. Jeezus Q. Christ. This has been a bumper day for stupid asshole repuke fuckwad stories

there was the story about an OK legislature who's introduced legislation to make cock fighting legal because, he says, if abortion is legal than cockfighting should be too.

Then there's the Iowa asswipe legislature who wants to get rid of no fault divorce for those who have minor children with one of his reasons being that it could make teenage girls promiscuous.

Now this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. So if buses can't stop on public streets,

are the passengers just supposed to run alongside until they can jump in the door, and then when they want to get off do they just do a paratrooper roll onto the curb?

It would be a GOPer, wouldn't it? They can't bear to be inconvenienced by us little folks.

[MiniMe]

8. I get frustrated being behind a bus too

But that said, I'm glad the buses are out there.

[Johonny]

9. perhaps he can suport light rail as an alternative...