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Bedbugs hitching rides on Detroit buses, say drivers
The union representing Detroit’s bus drivers has reportedly asked local lawmakers to put pressure on the transit agency to help stop the spread of bedbugs on buses.
The Detroit News reports that roughly 50 Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) drivers have said they’ve seen bedbugs on buses, and some have been bitten within the past year, according to Henry Gaffney, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26.
After receiving a letter from Gaffney in May, DDOT chief executive Ron Freeland said Thursday he asked a maintenance crew to investigate and sent a letter to the union later that month saying any infested bus would be cleaned.
The amount of bedbugs the crew has found so far in the cleaning process isn’t unusual for a service with an average of 100,000 riders each day, Freeland told the newspaper.
“I, personally, am not aware of any widespread problem,” he said. “Where we do have problems, we are in fact dealing with it.”
Any buses reported to have bedbugs will be cleaned and fumigated, Freeland said. If that doesn’t kill them, the maintenance crew can put the vehicle in a paint booth and kill the bugs with heat.
Unneutral
June 30th, 2012
Bedbugs, lice, scabbies, crabs….and the government encourages everyone to use public transportation. Lysol, don’t leave home without it.
cfm990
June 30th, 2012
If the bedbugs were smart, they would hide behind the cock roaches.
99th Squad Leader
June 30th, 2012
Bedouin Bugs? No seriously. Anyone really guarding the Southern or Northern border? In addition, TSA is hands off those of Middle Eastern descent.
Lowell
June 30th, 2012
Bed bugs ain’t phukin’ funny. You can get infested in hotels that are spotless. You get a bite from something on the road, do not take your luggage and clothing in your home. Nor your ass for that matter until you address the problem. These things are hell to get rid of.
Look into what some of the high end cruise ships have had to go through.
Maudie N Mandeville
June 30th, 2012
Bedbugs, cooties, fleas, gonorrhea, syphilis ….What is the going rate of a liberal, Obama voting lady of the night in Detroit, anyway? No wonder Detroiters get pregnant so young.
Stranded in Sonoma
June 30th, 2012
I think the DDOT needs to pass out some DDT.
sablegsd
June 30th, 2012
They need to fumigate with the passengers still on the bus.
IronyCurtain
June 30th, 2012
Can you blame the bedbugs? They’re just trying to get a ride out of Detroit.
House of Kell
July 1st, 2012
“The amount of bedbugs the crew has found so far in the cleaning process isn’t unusual for a service with an average of 100,000 riders each day…”
Well…this IS detroit, so…