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DART P.D.'s Unanswered Phone
Anne-on-a-mouse (not verified)  2007-12-06 20:38   

Exactly who does one contact report someone drinking an alcoholic liquid from an open container on either a bus or train?

I see this a lot, but I don't exactly see bus drivers "noticing" it or saying anything if they do (which wasn't the case in the last city where I lived, where it was like "hey buddy, I'm not losing my job for you, get off the bus now").

Also if one calls the main number for DART after "DART Business" hours, but during DART's hours of service and presses the appropriate telephone menu buttons, one does not get DART PD Dispatch, one gets Voice Mail!!!

I know because one night I left my keys on the bus and I tried calling DART Police and got some DART PD employee's Voice Mail box instead.

I was fortunate in that I live near the end of the line and that the bus wasn't going to the garage, so after waiting at the bus stop for the next bus in the opposite direction - there was the bus driver and he had my keys ready for me.

So when it isn't "life and death" but it is extremely important (I didn't want to camp out in my apartment building's lobby all night) and it isn't between 7AM and 7PM during the week or between 8AM and 5PM on the weekends, there should be a number to call that gets answered by a human being!

Oh and I used to live in a smaller city with a bigger transit system and I had the number for their Transit Police dispatch programmed in my cell phone. Even though I only really had to use it once, it was nice to know that a human being would answer the phone 24/7.


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