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Passenger Guidelines, Etiquette and Rules
The BATA wants all passengers to have a safe and pleasant ride. We ask all passengers to follow these guidelines, etiquette and rules.
GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE
- Please have your fare (exact change) or pass ready when you enter the bus.
- Please take your seat quietly.
- Please reserve seats for the elderly, pregnant women and those with physical disabilities.
- Please refrain from eating or drinking.
- If you have a child in a stroller or other wheeled carrying device, you must remove the child and collapse the stroller or wheeled carrying device.
- Please use earphones if using sound producing devices (radios, CD players, boom-boxes, etc.)
- Please place any baggage or other items you are carrying on your lap, or under the seats. If you place bags on the seat, please remove them if another passenger wishes to sit.
RULES
The following activities are prohibited on any BATA bus:
- Consumption of alcohol, and/or illegal substances.
- Distracting the driver while bus is in service. The driver's attention must be on safe driving.
- Smoking.
- Possession of weapons.
- Boarding the bus with hazardous or dangerous materials or devices.
- Behavior that is considered to a reasonable person to be dangerous, disruptive, obscene, threatening, violent, inciting or insulting language and/or gestures.
- Fighting, or mock fighting.
- Throwing objects in the bus or out the windows.
- Using sound producing devices without earphones. (radios, boom boxes, mega-phones, etc).
- Panhandling, and soliciting.
- Harassing or intimidating any person.
- Putting hands out the window.
- Putting hands on or touching other passengers without consent.
- Bicycling, roller-skating, rollerblading or skateboarding on the bus.
- Animals, except service animals and animals that are caged. (The cage must be able to fit on the passengers lap or between their legs when riding.)
- Lack of shoes, shirts, other inappropriate attire.
- Placing of any objects in aisles or other places where a reasonable person would consider dangerous.
Persons with exposed body fluids pose a serious health risk to everyone on the bus. Passengers who are experiencing this condition will be removed from the bus or denied access to the bus. This includes, but is not limited to bodily eliminations, spitting and blood.
To ensure the safety of all passengers, the BATA reserves the right to remove and/ or deny service to any passenger who poses a threat to the safety of themselves or others.
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