Comments on: Smoking Bus Driver Caught on Video

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:43:37 +0000

I got another one for you…the time I was on the 30 Stockton and the bus driver got off at a street corner and scored a drug buy! Hope he didn’t smoke that while driving his route. Sorry I didn’t have the presence of mind to take a picture.

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By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:23:09 +0000

As far as the guy with the lug problem, so I can’t smoke anywhere you are is that correct? Most of you guys need to get a f-ing life, the guys is taking a break, you guys kill me always got problems with bus drivers, Leave guy alone, none of you could put up with half the crap they have to put up with from day to day. I am so sick of you wimps, oh,oh, my lungs,my lungs, second hand smoke, it’s going to kill me, global warming. Shut up!!! first of all, how do you know that’s not a electronic cigarette, I smoke them and you could not tell if it’s real or not, if you were in my face, you would not know. Why don’t you worry about your self and mind your dam business. GET A LIFE!!! I hate you every thing must be perfect people, you make me sick.

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By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:23:49 +0000

Once, on the final stop of the 38L line (Point Lobos Ave & 48th) I saw a bus driver smoking a tobacco pipe on his bus.

It was stopped though.

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By: K2

K2 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:53:38 +0000

For those of you who wonder what the big deal is:

As someone with a genetic lung disorder, I am sensitive to smoke. I know smoke lingers in confined areas, even if the windows are open. Secondhand smoke is also a known carcinogen.

Your right to smoke ends where my lungs begin.

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By: Moreen

Moreen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:03:37 +0000

Busted! No discipline bus driver! How can you do that? Do you know that your endangering the lives of your passenger? You should be discipline. And there is one person doing this, others might follow and that is not acceptable.

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By: Michael Dowling

Michael Dowling — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:39:04 +0000

How can this not be a big deal? This is disgusting – that smell lingers for a LONG time. And this is not an isolated incident – the driver of the 1 California constantly smokes on his break and it’s gross.

If the drivers cannot be respectful to the buses and passengers, how can they expect passengers to respect them?

Next time, try to get their badge #. I’d like to see a slew of folks from here and elsewhere call in and report this clown.

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By: driver

driver — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:55:59 +0000

Gross. Get off the bus to smoke. Oh yeah, I forgot. It’s illegal to smoke in public places in San Francisco. So, he hides in his bus. And where is he flicking that ash? Nasty.

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By: mattymatt

mattymatt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Yeah, sure, what he’s doing against Muni’s rules. And it’s also technically illegal. But come on, do we really expect drivers to obey the law all the time? I mean, there are a lot of laws in the world! Why shouldn’t Muni drivers get to pick and choose which ones to follow?

I mean, if they’d recently experienced any serious problems — like crashing a bus or a train — then I’d probably want them to pay closer attention to the rules; but I’ve never heard of Muni experiencing any consequences as a result of drivers’ failure to adhere to regulations. No sir, not once.

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By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:17:32 +0000

Smoking with the doors and windows open, lots of air flow, no passengers and you’re on your break, fine. But I’d hate to get on a bus that reeked of cigarette smoke… not that they don’t often smell like cigarettes, pot, sharpies, etc. anyway. That said… How hard is it to sit on the bus stairs and smoke, or stand outside the bus and lean against it to smoke?

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By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:30:33 +0000

Were there passengers on the bus? If he’s on his break, he’s really not affecting anybody else imo, so what’s the big deal – I’m with you there, suckerpunch.

I mean, people take cigarette breaks. He just happens to have a job where the only place he can take a cigarette break is around a bus.

But if there were passengers and he were smoking, that’s a whole other different thing.

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