This Week in Passenger Transport
March 3, 2008
Statistics show an increasing number of assaults on public transportation operators who hold people’s lives in their hands—from Washington, DC, to Lexington, KY, to Canada to London, England.
To combat this criminal behavior, transit officials and the Amalgamated Transit Union are taking an array of steps that include such innovations as a barrier inserted between a driver’s seat and the farebox, new legislation with enhanced penalties for assaulting transit drivers, and increased presence of police.
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