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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:22 PM Feb 2022

Bus driver shortage drives Metro Transit to change 18 bus routes beginning March 21

Metro Transit is cutting the service frequency of buses on 12 MetroBus routes and making changes to six other routes.

Bi-State Development, which operates the transit system, is struggling to operate its routes because it is having trouble attracting and retaining bus drivers during the coronavirus pandemic. The company has boosted pay to $18.53 an hour to recruit drivers.

“Unfortunately, this is just about what our labor availability is,” said Taulby Roach, Bi-State Development president and CEO. “It still means that we have to be sure that our level of service is balanced with our labor availability.”

The transit company needs to fill about 130 positions to keep services operating across the St. Louis region.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/economy-business/2022-02-25/bus-driver-shortage-drives-metro-transit-to-change-18-bus-routes-beginning-march-21

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Bus driver shortage drives Metro Transit to change 18 bus routes beginning March 21 (Original Post) Sherman A1 Feb 2022 OP

Ya scared me. I feared it was my Metro Transit (Twin Cities) progree Feb 2022 #1

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1. Ya scared me. I feared it was my Metro Transit (Twin Cities)

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 04:41 PM

Feb 2022

we pared down several routes a few months ago because of bus driver shortages, and the resulting unscheduled unpredicatable (as to which ones and where) cancellation of hundreds of individual trips each day.

Fortunately, in the past month or so, we've had very few of these unscheduled individual trip cancellations, judging from my monitoring of a very busy route (#14) and what someone at Metro Transit said about another super-busy route (#3).

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