Boston Transit Worker Caught Texting

By The Associated Press
Nov 13, 2009, 12:18 PM
2 Comments

BOSTON — An MBTA driver has been suspended and is facing termination after being caught sending a text message while operating a Green Line trolley.

Spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the employee was suspended without pay Thursday and will be the third MBTA worker fired under the agency’s zero-tolerance texting policy.

WBZ-TV first reported that Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials were alerted by a commuter who they say captured video of the driver texting Monday while the trolley was in motion.

The operator was identified only as a 45-year-old male with 24 years of service.

The policy was put in place after the May 8 crash in which T authorities said former operator Aiden Quinn was texting his girlfriend as his trolley rear-ended another, injuring 62 people and causing $9 million in damage.

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http://www.wbur.org Albertina

Now you have to be a complete idiot to have or use cell phone while driving the T and not think that you would be caught. That’s 24 years of good service down the drain. Was it worth the text message?
Jay

Not texting, not driving, in second car