Fall asleep at the wheel, get promoted
What happens to a bus driver at WMATA if she falls asleep at the wheel and hits a pole? She gets promoted to station manager. A similarly envious fate awaited a bus driver who struck a pedestrian in the District.
The article also describes numerous instances in which Metro managers ignored safety warnings.
Is improvement brewing? A few days ago I rode a Metrobus from Ballston to Rosslyn in Arlington, Virginia. The friendly driver told me that he couldn't risk checking sports scores on his cell phone: several drivers with lots of seniority had recently been fired for using cell phones on the job, he said. Several months ago, CEO Richard White was surprised to learn that drivers routinely talk on cell phones while driving.
CEO Richard White responds to the Post series.
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