It has become a disturbing trend: MTA officials say four bus drivers have been attacked on the job in the past week alone. However, the agency is looking for ways to protect their employees. A recent video circulating online shows a group of people outside a bus in Brooklyn pushing and shoving each other — when all of a sudden,…
On Monday, NBC 4 New York was aboard a bus that was being retrofitted with a partition transit officials have dubbed"the cockpit."
“I believe that this is the start. It should reduce assaults drastically," bus operator Edward Burt said. “I was gonna cut him a break because I was like, 'wow, he must have really needed the bus,' and this gentleman decided to just spat [sic] on my face because he couldn’t get on a bus in the middle of the street," Burt said.We wanna make sure [bus drivers] come to work, go home safely, protected from the public.“We believe the cockpit will help reduce those assaults of people trying to reach around and strike at our employees or throw coffee on them, for example,” Davey said.
“Like the airplanes pilot is protected same thing here with bus operator, we wanna make sure they come to work, go home safely, protected from the public," TWU Local President Richard Davis said.
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