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Bus Drivers

The Decline of Good Transit Jobs and Passenger Safety

John Samuelsen | Posted 11.26.2012 | New York
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John Samuelsen

The MTA's contract demands include the introduction of part-time Bus Operators, which would have a rippling effect throughout working-class communities.

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Four-Year-Old Locked In Stifling School Bus For 5 Hours

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.14.2012 | Home
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Kizzy Emerson, a 4-year-old girl from Mansfield, Ohio, was accidentally locked inside a school bus for nearly six hours, WJW reports. “Her dad p...

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Bus Driver Instructed Girl To Beat 9-Year-Old While She Restrained Him

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.06.2012 | Home
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Brenda Abdul-Mateen, a Columbus City Schools bus driver in Ohio, held a 9-year-old boy's arms and told a girl to beat him up on her school bus, police...

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Bus Drive Allegedly Uses School Bus As Weapon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.16.2011 | Home
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Theresa P. Douglas, 40, was arrested Wednesday and charged with many counts of assault in Maryland after she drove a school bus into a trailer in the ...

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School Bus Driver Allegedly Falls Asleep At Wheel On Highway

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.07.2011 | Home
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After reportedly falling asleep while driving a school bus full of kids down a highway in Tacoma, Wash., the 65-year-old driver has been put on admini...

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Attacks On NYC Subway Workers And Bus Drivers On The Rise

Posted 01.01.2012 | New York
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Bad news from the underground: coinciding with a 17 percent rise in subway crime, the number of attacks on subway workers has increased by 16 percent ...

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WATCH: Elderly School Bus Attendant Beat And Bit Student

Posted 12.13.2011 | Home
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A surveillance video from a Florida school bus has surfaced that shows an elderly bus attendant beating and biting a student she says bullied her. ...

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WATCH: Greatest Bus Driver Ever

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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NYC The Blog took a bus ride recently that turned out to be unexpected -- in a many, good ways. The broken coin box seen when boarding the crosstown...

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Texting Ban: Government Seeks Penalties For Texting While Driving Trucks, Buses

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed a ban on text messaging at the wheel by interstate truck and bus drivers, follo...

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Bus Service Slowdown: Contract Feud Between MTA And Transit Workers Could Lead To Commute Problems

nydailynews.com | Pete Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Straphangers beware: your commute could take longer next Wednesday because of the simmering contract dispute between transit workers and the MTA. A...

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