There is all sorts of wrong with Metro's poor compensation of bus drivers. The public's safety is but one facet (and apparently an insignificant one) of hiring drivers for rates at which even a lowly newspaper production schmoe would scoff: "Trainee Rate:$11.09 p/hr - Start Rate:$14.38 p/hr - Top Rate:$22.12 p/hr."
As such, it is no wonder that the Daily News found out about a Metro drivers' scam that has been employed for quite some time.
On that note, here are some photos of Metro driver's discarded day passes that can be observed daily after 7 p.m. at the lot on 6th and Central, shortly after the shift change.
Despite the garbage can at the gate—a receptacle by which each and every Metro driver must walk (unless they climb the fence!) to get to their private motor vehicles—and the fact that Metro day passes are usually bound on a pad, one can easily infer that these may well have been meant to have been sold surreptitiously.
-BusTard
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