VTA bus jumps curb in downtown Palo Alto

A large Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus ran onto a sidewalk, narrowly missing a bus stop bench and taking out a line of newspaper racks, near the downtown Palo Alto Post Office on Friday morning.

The driver will continue on the route with another bus. VTA will investigate, Hendler Ross said.

Drive a bus up a curb and allowed to continue the route?!?!?!?
AMAZING!!!

VTA continuing to make friends in the North County

If the driver described a mechanical failure and it was visibly noticeable I can see how they could let the driver finish the route. Not too shocking.

So pleased nobody was sitting on the bus stop bench waiting for a bus. This could have been a lot worse.

Whether the driver was at fault or the bus had mechanical problems, I think in either case, the driver should at least have been replaced. The driver should surely have had a report to file and whatever before being allowed to drive another bus.

This is not the way for VTA to make friends and influence new riders here.

Time for this:
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The VTA will continue to waste money and make things worse if it gets its $6 billion tax measure passed on November 8. See those left lanes on El Camino? Get out. VTA buses and miles of unused roadway only. Want to cross El Camino? Run. Left turns between intersections? Gone. Want to operate a business on El Camino? Better be the bus repair business.

Driver didn't immediately continue in route. She took the bus back to the yard to file a report and had a few hours off

VTA's buses are a noisy, smelly, expensive, bulky, carbon-intensive way to haul very few to zero passengers around. VTA ought to sell them to a successful transit agency and replace them with Priuses.