Driver’s death * USA - Spurs bus safety measures
Friends at wake hope officials will now see need for Plexiglas shields
New York,NY,USA -Metro New York, by Patrick Arden -Dec 8, 2008: -- Hundreds of bus drivers lined up along Flatbush Avenue at last night’s wake for Edwin Thomas, their co-worker murdered by a passenger one week ago... The drivers talked, hugged and wondered whether they would now get Plexiglas partitions similar to the shields currently in cabs. NYC Transit had rejected that protective measure in 2003... Back then, a series of brutal assaults against drivers had led their union to suggest installing partitions. Shields were already in San Francisco buses, but NYC Transit “said it would be too costly,” recalled Ed Watt, secretary-treasurer of Transport Workers Union Local 100... The idea was revived last week in a meeting between NYC Transit President Howard Roberts and Local 100 President Roger Toussaint. In addition to a Plexiglas partition, the city’s 4,600 buses may be equipped with a direct-to-911 “panic button” and an automatic announcement telling boarding passengers to pay their fares...
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