"You can join my page and you'll see every single day riders are waiting 45 minutes to an hour every single day. Buses are bypassing them because they're full," Grisafi, who runs a Facebook page dedicated to riders' complaints, said. "Buses with no air conditioning."
"They cut all the overtime for bus operators, all the overtime for mechanics," ATU Local 726 President Dan Cassella said. "What does that mean? The buses that are behind us are just sitting there."
"We are running as much service as we can with the operators we have available," Cassella said, reading one of the alerts, then pointing to the picture of his members waiting at the depot. "Here's the bus operators available."
The union that represents MTA workers on Staten Island, Amalgamated Transit Union, says the MTA isn't fixing mechanical issues, leaving operators with no buses to drive.
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