Remarks: The ad “shows a dejected-looking man, in a suit, sitting on a bench with a bus stop sign beside it,” explains On Patrol tipster Karen McKendry. “The accompanying text reads: ‘Good people can have bad credit. Need a car?’ Ouch! So, people who have bad credit are forced to take the lame-o city bus? Talk about a horribly anti-public-transit message…and on a city bus no less!” Cormier says the ad slipped through Metro Transit’s vetting process, but was caught last month and should’ve been removed by now. “I’ll have to make a phone call,” she says.
Who’s Responsible?: Liset Cormier, Metro Transit, 490-6614.
This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2008.
This sign is still up. I saw it yesterday morning on the 80.
…and STILL up – saw it a couple days ago on the 51 (bus#1105).