Comments on: ECAT Union Sets Strike Date

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:54:22 +0000

The danger of public transportation: you rely on the unreliable, can only go where it goes, can only go when it goes, share the air with the contageously sick, might make an easy target for terrorists (not the Century bus, but others).

Flip side: don’t have to pay for and keep up car if you can get by, are safer in most wrecks, can plan your day with fewer decisions to make, meet interesting people (even if they sneeze on you), can read as you go places or enjoy the sights, others pay part of your expenses

David for Googlemobiles.

By: justafact

justafact — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:37:03 +0000

Drivers just quit . go to work for someone else.

By: M

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:32:49 +0000

Let’s not run across the border to buy gas, let us run the Commissioners off that passed this extra gas tax. Better yet, let’s start a petition drive to make it a ballot issue to stop funding ECAT, and repeal the gas tax. If that doesn’t work, lets have a recall election. If anybody remembers, the Commissioners passed this tax between the election, and the time when new Commissioners took office. Smells at best.

By: Joe Bagofdoughnuts

Joe Bagofdoughnuts — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:01:30 +0000

I won’t buy gas in Escambia county either.

If they want a buss system in Pensacola, thats fine. That might work, but let the city pay for it.

ECAT does not serve the county residents to any appreciable degree.

Why would I drive (X) miles to park my car so I can wait for a buss to take me somewhere down town, then walk to my first destination that I needed to go to. Then I repeat this to get to the remaining stops needed. And then wait (with packages) in the rain to ride back to my car and drive home.

If this scenario makes any sense to our BOCC, then THEY are the problem.

Oh, I almost forgot the FOREIGN contractor thing . Grrr

Corruption or just incompetence. Who Knows?

Either way it stinks.

By: wm

wm — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:15:03 +0000

Michael Lowery stated their goal — and it has been unchanged since the last strike and running off of Veolia… They (the bus drivers) want to become COUNTY EMPLOYEES. Uh, hello — there is a reason why the County Commission farmed it out to a contractor to begin with! To get rid of unnecessary county employees and reduce costs to run the under-used transit system.

They can strike their little hearts out — and run off this contractor if they choose — but the County Commission will NEVER make the bus drivers county employees again…never!

Mr. Lowery just needs to get back behind the wheel of a bus and drive a route — and be thankful he has a job…rather then rousing up the drivers in a frenzy like he’s Al Sharton or Jesse Jackson!

By: don

don — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:41:40 +0000

join me by going on strike when it comes to buying gas in escambia county. i’ll drive to al. or santa rosa county , but i will not but gas in escambia. defund obama care and ecat.
just thought i would throw obama care in.

By: David

David — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:53:59 +0000

I need a job..let me know when you walk..I will take it right out from under you..while I drive your bus right past you while your standing in the food stamp line.

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:27:39 +0000

If ecat shuts down does that mean we will no longer get robbed for 4 cents a gallon ?

By: catman

catman — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:05:34 +0000

Who gives a rats behind if they strike. I see the bus come thru Molino going to Century every morning and the most I have ever seen on it is three people including the driver (yes it is lighted inside so you can tell how many riders are on it). I will be buying my gas in Santa Rosa county or Alabama so let them strike!!!!! If you want to count the people on the bus every morning it comes up hwy. 29 every morning betyween 5:30 and 6:00 a.m.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:02:05 +0000

Public transportation is something that all cities do for the public. Even though all the public do not use. Somebody has to pay for it.

I do not like paying for something that I do not use nor want.

Strike? Go for it!