NY Post Article

A recent article in the NY Post on January 21, 2012 claims that bus drivers eye sneaky bus-service delays. However, given that the report does not indicate the source of this information, NY Post' prediction should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.

The lack of credibility is astounding - it went on to claim that bus operators will be engaging in a ‘delaying tactic’. The NY Post implied that the bus operators should overlook and sweep under the rug the New York State safety inspections as in the past in favor of being on time. 

If the NY Post was interested in finding out why the buses are late then here are the many reasons why the buses are late. 

• Management does not cover the schedule, some runs are left open intentionally (while bus operators are sitting idle - the NY Post should ask the management why - but don't hold your breath)
• An average of twenty (20%) percent of runs are not covered - never saw the NY Post digging into that.
• Buses that breakdown en route - then those are missing runs from the schedule.
• An average of twenty (20%) percent of buses break down en route.
• A whopping forty (40%) percent of schedule is not covered that is a forty (40%) increase on the waiting time for New Yorkers which does not fancy the NY Post.
• Buses need to be repaired and maintained however due to the maintenance cuts they are just collecting dust.
• When buses encounter traffic and over crowding the management does not adjust the schedule and New Yorkers know that.

It is clear the NY Post article deserves the award of the dumbest article. We can also understand, as writers, why a sensational title is necessary, but . . . why so mean sounding? At last we realize they need to sell their paper.

It is also a fact that the NY Post is not for all the non-rich people in New York, no matter if they're secular or religious, old or young, realize that they have abandoned some really important battlefields in this country, that is the economy. The NY Post only deals obsessively with their pet peeve TWU Local 100 members.

It would be great if the NY Post looked into the above root causes. That would be a great community service however as we know the NY Post are not into the common good.

This is not an isolated review of NY Post performance. It has been corroborated time and time again. The fact that the NY Post is so blatantly slanted, and the effects of that slant have become ingrained into the readers which has been purposefully deceived, and needs to be made known to every New Yorker. Our TWU Local 100 cannot function if New Yorkers are making choices based on right wing points of view. We have the evidence that the NY Post is tilting the scales and we must now make certain its corporate owners do not get away with it. The NY Post is deliberately misinforming its readers and it is doing so for a reason. Every issue above is one in which the Republican Party had a vested interest. The GOP benefited from the ignorance that the NY Post helped to proliferate.