News Jun 5, 2009 at 11:30 am

Breaking News: Bus Ride Bumpy

Dominic Holden
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This happens all the time on #312 and #306 going north on I-5. It can be pretty scary, but I didn't know it was news-worthy.
tabletop_joe on June 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM Report this
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That's one huge advantage of fixed rail over the bus: the bus is really rickety. I hate having to stand up on the bus; on the train I don't care.
keshmeshi on June 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM Report this
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hmmm...I wonder if Metro has been leaning on their drivers to keep to the schedule. I've encountered a couple of psycho bus drivers lately who drive like madmen/women down Denny.
michael strangeways on June 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM Report this
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Do they pay their writers for this kind of investigative research?
BombasticMO on June 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM Report this
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With this sort of reporting I can't understand why newspapers are in trouble!
Cato the Younger Younger on June 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM Report this
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The dual-mode benders that Metro used to run out of the tunnel would do that all the time. A tap on the brakes usually stopped the swaying.
on June 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM Report this
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Had the same thing happen on a 21 express about 3 weeks ago - everyone was upset at the driver, who seemed to be driving aggressively. The driver insisted that it is a known problem within Metro with the suspensions on one of the brands of buses (Gillig?).
on June 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM Report this
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A slight jerk of the wheel causes a sway and then the intensity slowly builds if the driver does not decelerate -- not exactly newsworthy unless it tips IMO.

Is this self-feeding "flutter" the same concept of aeroelasticity that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
Anyone with a knowledge of physics care to provide some insight here?
on June 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM Report this
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Of course, if Dominic or, God forbid, Erica had been on that bus we would have had a 20-paragraph, first-person Slog diatribe about the horror. Since it happened to somebody else...
on June 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM Report this
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@9: Really? Cause I think this has happened to most people who ride the bus on a regular basis, so I kind of think it probably *has* happened to both Domenic and Erica.
Lee on June 5, 2009 at 11:07 PM Report this

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