Driver-Protection * USA - Partitions to Be Tested on Buses
New York City Transit will begin a pilot program to test partitions that would separate bus drivers from passengers
New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by WILLIAM NEUMAN -December 18, 2008: -- The test program was prompted by the death on Dec. 1 of Edwin Thomas, 46, a bus driver on the B46 route in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, who was stabbed to death after an argument with a passenger who had not paid his fare... The partitions will be tested on buses operating out of the Flatbush Depot in Brooklyn, where Mr. Thomas worked. Driver partitions are now being used or tested in bus systems in several major cities, including Chicago, Washington, Milwaukee and Baltimore, according to Mr. Fleuranges... The pilot program was proposed by a committee studying bus driver safety and composed of representatives of Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the transit agency’s management...
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