Jezebel: Bus

Classmates Beat Girl Unconscious Over Seat on the School Bus

Margaret Hartmann — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:52:00 EST

We're aware that most children are little monsters (and not in a fun Lady Gaga way), but a group of Florida students have reached a new low. On Friday, a 13-year-old girl took the school bus in Ocala for the first time. No one would let her sit down, so she sat on her sister's lap instead, prompting even more teasing from the students on the bus. Someone threw a shoe at the girl's head, and when she hurled it back a fight broke out. More »

Women On Brooklyn Bus Can Now Sit Wherever They Damn Well Please

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:49:00 EDT

The owner of the B110 bus in Brooklyn, which runs between two Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, insists that despite the fact that women have been told get in the back of the bus for decades, it never condoned the practice. However, since everyone got so riled up about passengers telling women where to sit on a public bus route, from here on out they won't be allowing the segretation they ostensibly never permitted in the first place. More »

Women Told They Must Ride In The Back Of The Bus In Brooklyn

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:50:00 EDT

Even today women are being sent to the back of the bus, and we're not talking metaphorically or in some foreign country. Women who ride the B110 bus in Brooklyn can't sit where they want unless they're okay with being berated by Orthodox Jewish men, even though technically the B110 is a public bus. More »

Londoners Steamed About Bus Commute

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:22:00 EDT

[London, September 7: A woman sits on a steamed-up bus heading into central London. Disruption to the capital's commuters is expected today as London Underground workers stage a 24-hour walk out over job losses in ticket offices. Image via Getty.]

When Israeli Foreign Minster Tzipi Livni...

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:40:00 EST

When Israeli Foreign Minster Tzipi Livni runs for prime minister early next year, she'll be able to run political ads on the side of buses in Jerusalem, thanks to a small political party called Wake Up, Jerusalemites. When the party tried to buy advertising on buses for six candidates for city council, they were told that their three female candidates could not appear in the ads because Egged, the public transportation company, said they feared that if the bus were to drive through an ultra-orthodox neighborhood, it would offend the haredim so much that they might attack it. Even when the Black-Eyed Peas played Jerusalem, the bus company photo-shopped Fergie out of the posters. [Time] More »

Sue The Pants Off Them

Maria — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Tahita Jenkins was fired from her job as a New York City bus driver when she refused to wear pants or culottes for religious reasons in May 2007. Now Jenkins is suing NYC Transit for religious discrimination. Jenkins is a Pentecostal whose strict religious beliefs prohibits women from wearing pants. Jenkins refused the option of wearing culottes which she saw as "just another form of pants" and even provided "proof" that her Church was against the bus driver's standard uniform (which apparently doesn't even have a modest calf-length skirt as an option). She was fired despite her religious explanation. Is giving someone the option of wearing a skirt really that big of a deal? Who even sees below the bus driver's waist when riding the bus? Even male postal workers are allowed to wear skirts. [NY Post] More »