Metro declares an emergency amid jump in bus driver assaults and seeks to quickly build barriers to wall drivers off from dangerous passengers.
The stabbing of a bus driver in Willowbrook this month amid a spate of increasingly violent assaults on public transit operators prompted transit officials this week to declare an emergency to speed up the building of enclosed protective barriers for drivers.
'The people that are going to work, those that don't have transportation, they are calling me just concerned for their safety.' Assaults on transit workers have tripled over the last 15 years, according to research from the Urban Institute, and other agencies are also looking at similar protections. If approved by the board, the emergency authorization would make Metro the first agency in the nation to install fully enclosed barriers on its fleet.
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