Safety is My Business - Transit Bus Training Video - 1980

[@uioned]

Drove these types of buses in Vancouver BC. I loved them.

[@rapman5363]

“ It looked like a big one Eh”

[@TheBadCivilServant]

Thank you for not only posting this video, but allowing those of us in the transit business to reminisce about one of the greatest, most reliable, most durable buses ever built: The G.M. New Look. The fishbowl. I drove buses in Toronto for 25 years, save for one year when I drove in Vancouver. In 2017, on my wife's orders, I relocated to Orlando where I continue to be a bus driver for a charter company. I have been "lucky" in my career. I've had a few mishaps, but thank God (literally), nothing serious. It's when you get complacent for just a second that you can get in trouble. One of my fellow (now former) co-workers here in Orlando found that out the hard way a few years ago and had a catastrophic collision. I'd love to go into detail here, but I can't. I'll just say that she would have been exonerated had she not been playing with her phone for just two seconds, three seconds prior to the crash. My most memorable incident happened at the Toronto airport (old Terminal 1, circa early 1990s) when an RCMP officer slipped on the ice, off the curb and underneath my bus. I immediately stopped the bus, got out and helped him back on his feet. He thanked me for not running him over. I told him, "You've never given me a ticket, so the thought never even crossed my mind." He brushed himself off, we carried on our respective ways and that was the end of it. Like I said, a second is all it takes to make the difference between getting out and helping the guy up and making sure he's okay, and having to deal with a fatality.

[@smwca123]

The accident shown at 6:33 et seq. is a near-replay, or foreshadowing, of one that happened in Edmonton IRL in 1980, probably around the time this film was shot give or take. Both the bus shown in the accident and the one involved IRL were among a group with double-width folding exit doors controlled by McKay gates, like Montreal (except that Montreal doors always opened fully when either gate was pushed). A woman carrying something exited through the rear doors but let go of the gate before she was fully out. The door closed on her arm, she was dragged under the rear wheels, crushed, and died in hospital several hours later. ETS later converted that series to direct driver control with the full door always opening (like Montreal).

[@rwrynerson]

The accident was filmed in downtown Edmonton on a Sunday morning, so we could have the streets blocked off. The ambulance ride is a loop around a couple of blocks. This film was the last of a set. There was an additional film on customer relations that was good but does not seem to have migrated to KZbin. There were also three films about Light Rail Transit made between 1977 and 1982. Noted director Reevan Dolgoy also made a film about restoration of Edmonton streetcar #1 that includes rare scenes of the northernmost streetcar lines in North America.

[@jimedge8301]

You can see some of these clips are in the university area and park plaza.

[@smwca123]

There was another ETS film Switches, Wires, and Poles, for trolleybus training, that also hasn't yet made its way to YT.

[@369Bandido]

Mmm mmm mmmm. Soul and Ride of a Caddilac Deville. The GMC New look for 60 years, Gave the world MANY Thrills!!!🤴🏿✌🏿🙏🏽🙌🏾🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇦🙋🏾‍♂️

[@TheBadCivilServant]

Armstrong Steering kept this bus driver in shape.

[@MsJamiewoods]

This old safety film is very relevant right now. The Milwaukee County Transit System recently had two serious crashes in about a 48-hour period. A New Flyer Low Floor and a Nova Bus battery-electric were each totaled. In each incident, reckless drivers smashed into the bus and at least one person in each car was killed. One passenger on one of the buses was seriously injured. The Nova Bus -- used on the BRT route -- was less than a year old.

[@TheBadCivilServant]

Last year, here in Orlando, a Venezuelan driver ran a red light and t-boned the passenger-side of my bus, striking the front door (New Flyer XD40). She was a lot luckier than those in the incident you just described. She put a dent next to the door, and damaged the door operating mechanism, putting the bus out of service for a couple of weeks until new parts could be sent down from Winnipeg. Damn woman asked a manager (in Spanish) if the company was going to buy her a new car. An instant replay of the dashcam videoS (plural) made certain that it didn't look promising for her. Of course, this is Florida and this is how they drive here, so she didn't even get a citation.

[@chrisstromberg6527]

That was sad to see. Usually those Milwaukee bus drivers are in the news for saving some lost kid, or providing medical assistance to someone in need or some other hero like actions.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

6:52 that tail swing... gets ya every time

[@ezragraham1763]

Edmonton represent!!

[@TheBadCivilServant]

Do they still have that downtown airport? That was one of the greatest things about Edmonton. The downtown airport and its easy access to Calgary.

[@ezragraham1763]

Unfortunately no downtown airport anymore - and one of the last remaining hangars from the airport burned down a few days ago.

[@smwca123]

@@ezragraham1763 The area is being redeveloped into a planned community called Blatchford, named for a former Edmonton mayor as was the old Municipal Airport.

[@fishygamesandshorts2895]

1:50 it said s#h#t

[@brycelacey8707]

He needs to change the oil in that thing oops

[@tomh3652]

So fake its staged for the video. No bus number on it or bus company name gives it away and the other buses were different colors so it probably was a collection of buses.

[@MsJamiewoods]

It's a training film. Highly unlikely a municipal transit system would have three crashes in one day.

[@TheBadCivilServant]

Remember that crash in Lethal Weapon I where the bad guy got t-boned by the GM bus? No company name on that one either. I bet that was staged, too. Totally fake.

[@smwca123]

All are the colors that Edmonton Transit used at the time; some in the other videos have the PacMan logo they used at the time.

[@Matute7231]

On a side note, notice you can't see one single obese person. Nowadays it's almost the norm.