Author faces backlash for reporting black Metro employee for eating on train; book deal halted

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47. What is your solution?

Don't just complain. Write to the transit system and suggest a solution.

1. Transit Workers get 20 minute dinner breaks, incl those working on trains/buses.
2. We don't stop trains/buses to let workers leave for dinner breaks,and wait for them.
3. Therefore, workers are forced to eat on their trains/buses
4. We recognize that workers would rather eat in peace, rather than in front of a group of strangers staring at them, and sometimes making rude comments to them about it.
5. We can't allow thousands of passengers to eat on the trains/buses 24/7 because that would result in a situation where the trains/buses would become unrideable and unsafe because of the food and trash, requiring us to stop trains/buses for cleanup during the day. This would require us to raise taxes to pay for the cleanup workers and the cost to stop the routes.

Now you go. What's the solution? On buses I used to ride, there were no backup drivers, so sometimes a bus would just stop, and the driver would get out and disappear for 10 to 20 minutes, without saying anything. Then he'd come back, and we'd resume.

So that's one solution. Just stopping the trains/buses for the workers to go on dinner breaks.