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# What’s the bigger problem?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/whats-the-bigger-problem-editor/
- Published: 2007-09-08T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:48:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By T. Stewart Santa Monica*

Another pedestrian is seriously injured — we hope this one survives as we have had other fatalities due to the negligence of these Big Blue Bus drivers. (”Mean streets,” page 1, Sept. 6) All over the city, BBBs speed through red lights and often honk at pedestrians in the middle of crosswalks without slowing down or stopping. It must stop.

What is the hurry anyway? Please send a SMDP reporter over to the BBB offices and get the story about what the administration is doing to slow the buses down to a safe speed and insure that drivers obey the rules of the road and practice common courtesy.

Instead of annoying TVs on our city buses these should be outfitted with monitoring devices to insure that drivers operate them safely and within the posted speed limit.

One step further would be to down-grade the bus engines to travel no faster the city’s highest limit.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 8, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)