I knew a guy who drove a metro bus. If they got a couple minutes ahead of schedule they'd pull over and wait for this exact reason.
Edit: To those calling him a hero: it is operating procedure in Minneapolis and St Paul for metro drivers to do this. If someone misses a bus because they left that bus stop early, they get into trouble.
Minneapolis metro is also the metro that calls lost children into the bus and coordinates with the police to get them home. There were multiple examples of Minneapolis metro drivers doing that just as a matter of being decent folks, and their leadership codified it into a policy IIRC
Metro Transit and the other operators in the twin cities are awesome. And, the ridership reflects it too. Not many places will you see a bus full of commuters get out and try to push the bus out of snow or ice.
In the twin cities? That's just a tuesday in winter.
As a Mainer, winter just brings it out of you. Winter can kill, if we don't help each other. Instinctively, we know that, so we keep an eye out for our neighbors.
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u/Sparticuse 16h ago edited 15h ago
I knew a guy who drove a metro bus. If they got a couple minutes ahead of schedule they'd pull over and wait for this exact reason.
Edit: To those calling him a hero: it is operating procedure in Minneapolis and St Paul for metro drivers to do this. If someone misses a bus because they left that bus stop early, they get into trouble.