911 bus rolls westward

By Hawes Spencer | editor@readthehook.com
Published online 9:31am Tuesday Feb 10th, 2009

At about 8:20am Tuesday February 10, a CTS bus crossing the Ridge-McIntire interesection along West Main Street, in place of its usual route numbers and destinations, blared out warning signals: "Emergency" and "Call 911" on its front and "Call cops" on its back. Although the driver didn't appear to be held at gunpoint, we did as instructed. "Generally, those are false alarms," said the 911 operator, "but we'll go ahead and call it in."

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2 comments

hit with a brick February 10th, 2009 | 1:19pm

the 911 system call center in this town needs major overhaul. whether you call 911 or "communications" (the non-emergency number 977.9041) so as not to tie up 911, there are problems. if the people in charge of the call center solicited customer feedback many of the issues could certainly be corrected.

Cville Eye February 12th, 2009 | 12:39am

It should be working. The millions have been spent in the last ten years to supposedly make it top notch.