The Orthodox Jewish-run Brooklyn bus company that stuck women in the back seats is putting an end to the controversial practice after a reprimand from the city.
The Private Transportation Corp. — which runs the Williamsburg-to- Borough Park B110 bus — wrote a letter to the Department of Transportation promising to instruct drivers not to move women to the back.
Operators pay the city more than $20,000 a year to run the line as part of a 30-year-old franchising agreement, which specifically forbids discrimination.
(Source: NY Post)
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Nobody is FORCED to sit in the Back, the fact is that 99.9% of the passengers on the Wsbg BP route choose by their own free will to sit segregated, these passengers also have Rights
Think about the self-assured, confident arrogance of this publicly funded bus company, operating a public transit route…the next time some paranoid Yid goes on about the anti-Semitism in this country.
Let’s see what the passengers will say about this??
simon01 – That being the case the only thing that’s changed is that the company won’t have bus drivers state anything. Of course, there is nothing illegal for the passengers to request of each other to have women sit in the back.
This is called “dealing with bureaucracy”. 😉
The company is not publically funded, they are a private company that has a franchise from the city
Yonason: dont be smug. They are NOT publicly funded with even one dime.
You are right, Yankie Doodle and yeshivabochur123…I should have said “publicly franchised”…and that makes the argument even stronger, as they are agents carrying out a public function under a government franchise.
In fact, if you see the article, they actually PAY for the route.
I have never been on the willib/bp bus, but I imagine the driver doesnt have to do much in the way of convincing the riders to sit according to gender, the passengers probably do this on their own accord.
The passengers will keep enforcing the rule even if the bus company and driver do not. It would be dangerous for the bus driver to get involved while driving a bus on the road. And the bus company isn’t responsible for the passengers enforcement.
Hopefully this means that men and women will be sitting on opposite sides of the bus with a mechitza in between (monsey tours style) so that they can keep their standards of tzniyus without raising public ire.
What’s wrong with a husband and wife or mother and son or other family members sitting together?
the passengers who choose to take this means of transportation do so because of the convenience and the rules. If there is a will there is a way. If this is what they choose to do they will continue to do it. Whether they break up the company into private transportation for women only or for men only vans at various locations or they continue to run the same busses by commuter consent.
When people butt into areas that don’t need fixing, they are playing with fire and they won’t win.
aries2756: Who exactly are you referring to that is “butting in”?
From my view, it’s the government – and THEY certainly aren’t losing. Why do they care if they choose to re-institute this practice on a private method of transport?