Rise in Bus Drivers Killing Passengers and Pedestrians

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Rise in Bus Driver Assaults Triggers New Protection Laws

More than 30 states have laws classifying assault on transit operators as a special category of misdemeanor. Incidents are increasing, and transit workers and their unions are pushing for action at all levels of government.

Based on the author's research she finds more innocent people being run over and killed or seriously injured by bus drivers in 30 states. Then more bus drivers are being attacked by pedestrians or passengers. The pedestrians, passengers, motorists, or cyclists are not injuring bus drivers to the point they can't reunite with their loved ones by being brutally taken off this earth. Some of these people are on their way to work and need by dead by the bus operator.

Yet, you do not see the bus companies or politicians passing laws to put these bus drivers in jail around the McQuinn sponsored a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would increase the penalties for attacking bus drivers and other transit operators. The bill, which was approved by the state Senate after amendments to remove mandatory minimum sentences, would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor to assault a transit operator, and it would ban people who are convicted of those assaults from riding the bus for at least six months.

Now where is the same or similar law or political advocacy for the passengers and pedestrians to be protected by the bus driver detrimental? There is no law to eradicate the bus operators' behavior toward the citizens who need to die or suffer from life-changed behavior. The bus driver’s life is not more important than the victims they killed. Some of the time it is the bus operator's fault for being attacked by passengers. The bus drivers threaten to kill the passengers with a bus and carry out the threat and lie and say it was an accident. The bus drivers will be verbally abusive to passengers and pedestrians yet they do not go to jail. These bus drivers can be distracted by counting money, tickets, speeding, masturbating, jumping the curb where pedestrians stand, and other violent behaviors and keep their job and then be award with a paycheck The person who assault or caused any Hazzard behavior towards the bus driver will be prosecuted, and you’re banned,” Costa says.

The prosecutor and their attorneys are quick to speculate what the bus driver would not do if they are in the mind of the bus drivers. We all know that bus drivers are going to admit that they had some type of ill will against the passengers who become a pedestrian once they walk off that bus. The bus company tries to push the bill to protect the bus driver to become law in Virginia and they will join more than 30 states that have laws on the books that classify assaults on bus drivers and other transit operators as a special category of violation. It’s a trend that began years ago but has taken on a new urgency in light of a sharp uptick in attacks. According to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the rate of attacks on transit operators increased more than 400 percent throughout the 2010s. The vulnerability of bus drivers. Once again where is the There are State Laws Against Harming Transit Workers. Once again where are the State laws and advocacy to protect the passengers and pedestrians from the bus drivers killing people by using the bus as a weapon? The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents public transit workers in the U.S. and Canada, has pushed for a range of measures to address operator safety at individual transit agencies and at the state and federal levels.

In addition to Virginia, lawmakers in Oregon have recently moved to increase penalties for people who assault transit workers. New Jersey passed a similar law last year, and New Jersey Transit is now working to implement a “no ride list” that permanently bans riders who attack transit operators, similar to “no-fly” lists in the airline industry. In general, there’s a “double standard” when it comes to worker safety in the airline industry and on public transit, says John Costa, Amalgamated Transit Union’s international president. The bus Union does not care about the bus drivers killing the innocent.

The ATU is putting all the power in the bus drivers' hands and giving them the okay to provoke passengers and pedestrians to put these people in jail. The bus drivers can make an allegation against passengers and pedestrians to have them locked up. There will be a lot of innocent people being locked up. While the true criminal driving the bus.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act included a provision requiring large transit agencies to create safety plans by convening safety committees made up of an equal number of labor representatives and managers. It also defines “assault on a transit worker” as an act in which someone knowingly “interferes with, disables or incapacitates a transit worker while the transit worker is performing the duties of the transit worker.” Big transit agencies will now be required to keep more detailed accounts of those assaults under FTA rules that were finalized last month. That will help workers make the case for more safety improvements, says Jeff Rosenberg, ATU’s director of government affairs. The increasingly vulnerable working conditions have made it harder for transit agencies to attract and retain operators, contributing to a nationwide shortage of bus drivers, says Chris Van Eyken, director of research and policy at TransitCenter. Responding to assaults and other dangerous behavior on transit is a major challenge for agencies, says Van Eyken, who authored a 2021 report about safety on public transit. Beyond just increasing the amount of policing, agencies need to find ways to stop assaults before they happen — for example, by reducing the driver’s role in collecting fares, an interaction that’s one of the primary triggers for attacks, he says. “We absolutely should be punishing people that assault and harass transit operators, but we need to be thinking about how we prevent them in the first place,” Van Eyken says.

The politicians absolutely should be punishing these bus drivers who are assaulting and harassing passengers and pedestrians while they are on the job. Too many bus drivers are getting away with murder and the demise of victims' life has changed forever. Along with the surviving victims who are suffering from life injuries that left them. disability.

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