How Much Do Cata Bus Drivers Make
OS: Is there a lady bus driver you’ve got your eye on, or do you like to stay solo? Hank: Right now, no.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as The T) is the public agency responsible for operating most public. Many of the individuals interviewed believed that the automated stop announcement system often did not work and that drivers did not make oral announcements when the automated system was not functioning. They also said that bus drivers would agree to make stop announcements when asked to do so, but even then.
The demands of this profession are often times too great to sustain a healthy relationship with a member of the opposite sex. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of intercourse (especially spontaneous and unprotected), but I choose to fly solo and devote myself entirely to my craft. OS: What made you decide to tweet about your daily life? Hank: I’ve been in this profession a long time.
There’s a lot of misconception about CATA bus drivers out there. Twitter became a medium allowing me to interact with followers and bus riders. I was able to let people know that, “Hey, there’s more to this overweight bus driver than meets the eye, just not all that much more.” Even beyond that, Twitter has given me the opportunity to bring my followers to the front lines of battle, to see State College through the all-seeing eyes of a CATA driver. Whether it’s inside information on CATA, simple every day anecdotes, resurfacing feelings about my troubled past, or what I’ll be eating for lunchI leave no stone unturned when it comes to Twitter. I tweet justice. I am CATA bus. OS: As is Onward State tradition, if you could be a dinosaur, which dinosaur would you be?
Hank: I’m sure most of you already know I actually prefer dragons to dinos. It’s something I picked up when I was younger that’s just stuck with me.
I guess I just feel as though I can relate to them. When I do choose to tweet about them it’s usually intimate, like some sort of emotional or spiritual release of what I’m feeling deep inside For example: The family I don’t have @HankCATAbus: I plan on naming my first baby girl, “Peeeeyyyyaaaaahh” after the bittersweet sound of a weeping female dragon. Gender confusion @HankCATAbus: If I were a dragon I’d be female (females possess superior aggressive tendencies and unprecedented dominance over males during mating season) Superior Intellect/Scared for the future @HankCATAbus: “Gram, I’m home”.sits in closet corner with door shut tight and imagines the feeling of a dragon breathing fire for the first time ever.
I can’t believe I just sat through Les Miserables @HankCATAbus: If I were a dragon I’d most definitely eat cats, because fckin c’mon, they’re cats. (Editors note: Hank the CATA bus driver isn’t actually a CATA bus driveras far as we know.).
The Lansing bus authority had 69 drivers who made $60,000 or more in 2012, including one who earned $104,411. The Capital Area Transportation Authority had 236 bus drivers in 2012, many of which were part time.
Salaries ranged from under $1,000, to 34 bus drivers who made more than $70,000, according to information obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request. The salaries include overtime. In recent years, customer bus fares have covered only about of the system's total operating costs. “CATA has the lowest cost per passenger ($2.37) of any transit system in the state of Michigan. An operator’s pay is just one component of actual cost,” said Laurie Robison, the director of marketing for the Capital Area Transportation Authority.
“There is no ‘annual salary’ for our bus operators as they are paid on an hourly basis. Their ‘annual pay’ is based on how many hours each operator actually works in a year.” By comparison, the average salary of an associate professor at Ferris State was $71,900 while an assistant professor earned $64,500 in 2012, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Everything about mass transit is grossly overpriced,” said Leon Drolet, chairman of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance. “That’s one reason there is a lot of skeptics with mass transit.
It’s not about getting people around, it’s about spending government money.” Jeff Steinport, who helped found citizen taxpayers watchdog group in Kent County, has investigated transit spending in Michigan. He said he wasn’t surprised more than 30 CATA drivers made $70,000 or more. “Regional transit agencies are unaccountable,” Steinport said.
“They do not have elected leadership yet they are able to raise taxes. Regional transit agencies are undemocratic and consequently, they are insulated from the consequences of making poor financial decisions. No one is held accountable when the system is wasting taxpayer money.
How Much Do Cata Bus Drivers Make
We believe that regional transit agency boards should be elected, like every other government entity in the state that is able to raise property taxes. Further, unlike school districts, transit agencies have no mandated transparency.' CATA served 11.8 million passengers in 2011, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. The agency's 145 buses served about 223 passengers per day, according to MDOT.
When factoring in inflation, CATA’s drivers’ labor costs have increased from $2.6 million in 2003-04 to an anticipated $4 million in 2012-13, while drivers’ benefits have jumped from $1.2 million in 2003-04 to an anticipated $2 million in 2012-13. See also.