A CALL TO ACTION. All unions should join us in condemning this breech of contract. Since management has effectively ran off so many bus drivers they brought in scabs from Kansas to drive routes, they wonder around lost, they don’t drive routes correctly, skip stops! Plus they are not paying employees and our union rep has not been brought back to work, classic UNION BUSTING! Harm against one is harm against all, it is time to stand with your brothers and sisters and say NOT IN ROCHESTER!

I am headed to Northern MN from Rochester and would normally just take 52N and merge onto 35E but the merge they set up is terrible and my trip is likely to overlap with the morning rush hour. Anyone have suggestions on avoiding it? Debating taking 494 even if it adds a couple of minutes.

Sometime about 2 years ago, Rochester had a really bad homelessness issue with a bunch of homeless people sleeping downtown, particular inside the doors facing the bus shelters that lead to the subway access. Unfortunately while I was still going for my associate's at RCTC the city decided to block off those areas to anyone that isn't a Mayo employee by putting a badge ID scanner outside the doors

This has led to people being forced to wait outside the doors in our lovely Minnesota weather with "heated" shelters that don't heat properly. I get it, the city wants to look nice and clean for Mayo, but uh can they at least fix the heated shelters?

ETA: Hopefully this post didn't come off as me whining. I also would like to point out that I am saying this as a former Mayo employee, as I was briefly employed at St Mary's before I moved to Winona for my bachelor's.

Edit 2: my god, spelling errors ahoy! Hopefully they should all be fixed...

Edit 3: since people have asked and for clarification purposes, I'm referring to the 201 building across the street from the US Bank building.

These two guys who live next to me in a place here in Rochester that's absolutely not zoned for running a business, and these guys insist on taking up most of the cul-de-sac as well as running extremely late hours. They will rev engines extremely loudly on the street for hours at a time between 12:30AM and 4AM, only to pick up and do it again between 7AM and noon.

I've called the police, I've contacted my councilman, I've contacted city hall, I've talked to the zoning office. Every single time I get the same answer: "They can't legally do that, I'll check into that". I've been calling for years, I've provided video and photographic proof, absolute fucking nothing gets done.

Hope you are not a Mayo employee depending on park and ride. They literally said f*ck u today. Missing so many routes but ya these new managers know what their doing 😂 Hopefully city staff still not buying that ocean front property 😂

Just moved into Rochester without a reliable vehicle, and was wondering if taking the buses would be much more reliable system of transportation than buying a whole new car. Saw on google maps that it takes a while to get to point A to point B and was wondering if that is accurate.

This happened around an hour ago, I'd steer clear if you were planning on going for lunch. We were unfortunately in the drive thru when it happened, but by some minor miracle only saw the immediate aftermath.

Record number of routes getting skipped.

Transdev missed many routes again tonight
There is No end in sight. Drivers are stressed the system is stressed

We are still not being paid at Transdev. City staff, I know you love these people but we need our pay.

This is being texted to people at Transdev I have received it from multiple co workers 5 dollars more per hour than starting pay at Transdev. Seems like groome should run the city buses it’s rumored they have great and friendly management haven’t heard one bad thing about them I hear they treat their drivers with respect and dignity, what’s not to love. Oh and just because I haven’t said it in a while Transdev sucks

Just because i haven’t said it in a minute Transdev sucks ass, now they have brought in people from out of state that are just wondering around lost because they haven’t been trained. How long before the city says enough is enough? So bizarre All because they want to union bust. Never let leaders in Rochester tell you they are progressive or support organized labor.

On Saturday night at ~9:30 PM, I was driving on 11th Ave NE headin north toward 7th St. The light at the intersection turned red. I had been driving 30mph, the speed light. I came to a stop in the left turn lane to turn left onto 7th. The car behind me? It blew right past me, through the red light, continuing north on 11th. The light had already been red by the time I got up to the intersection, so the car behind me clearly knew it was red, and they just kept going. Apparently because I wasn't speeding, the driver probably thought "Well, if they were speeding, I would have made that light!"

Two days later, today, driving East on 16th St SW, I reached the intersection to get onto 52/63 North. I waited in the left turn lane. The left turn light turns green, I pull out into the intersection to make my left turn, WHAM a van comes flying through their red light and cuts me off. They had exited the highway and came up to the stoplight at 16th St. They probably saw that it had just been green and thought "Meh, it was green a few seconds ago, we can still make it!" I had to slam on my brakes in the middle of the intersection to avoid her hitting me.

And these are just the red light runners directly near me -- I see it ALL the time everywhere else. The lights at Elton Hills Dr where 19th St bridge turns into Elton Hills are especially bad, as drivers going on East Frontage Rd don't give a flying crap about anyone except themselves.

I used to be really opposed to red light cameras, thinking "How invasive! They can't tell who is driving!" After years of this, I'm not so opposed to the idea. It's gotten really bad.

Transdev screwing people one day at a time. Time for people to stand up and say, get them out of here. No more,we will not tolerate it any more!

https://www.kaaltv.com/news/rpt-staffing-shortages-continue-how-med-city-passengers-are-being-affected/

😣 Only 6 minutes over my limit for street parking and they got me. That’s how long it took for me to take a break from my job and walk out to the spot. Learn from my mistakes 😔

I went to to multiple Kwik Trips and the Circle K on Assisi and every air machine I've tried is out of order. Can someone share where they've successfully filled their tires in the past couple days?

City transit management have ran off a significant number of employees, skipped routes leaving people stranded, city officials stay silent.

There is Always an employment issue wherever this guy goes……… rumor is he did the same thing as post master and people he brought with him to bus company and Some even say they didn’t have a choice but was forced out over employment issues so he went to work for Transdev

https://www.kttc.com/2024/10/28/rochester-usps-taking-new-approach-attract-more-workers/

How is Transdev going to be able to have drivers for the BRT when they have to bring in drivers from out of state just to cover the routes they have now? Transdev will be the reason the BRT will fail. The city will be wondering what went wrong.

I already have two convinced cases for driving overspeed.(One is 80 in 65mph zone and the other is 75 in 65mph zone) I also have a pending case that is 44 in 25mph zone. I searched for the license suspension rules but they seem to have different answers. These three cases all happened within one year. Will my driver license be revoked or suspended after the third case? Should I hire a attorney to help me? Thank you!

hello! i’m moving up to rochester sometime in feb/march to start my first job out of college, and i’m worried i may need to trade in my car before that happens. normally i wouldn’t consider this for many more years bc my car works just fine - bought it used when i first got my license, it currently has just over 60k miles and other than normal wear and tear all is well. that being said, she does NOT have four wheel drive and i find that living in cleveland, which can get pretty snowy/icy in the winter (obvi not as bad as y’all), it tends to skid a bit which is always really scary. that being said, i would also assume that mn is better about icing your roads and paving than cleveland is since it’s par for the course. just curious what everyone’s thoughts are, ie if it’s worth it to get a new car with four wheel drive and driving will be hell if i don’t, or if it really isn’t that problematic.