Violent Attacks on Bus Drivers Along B15 Route Spur Outcry by TWU, MTA

Two brutal attacks on veteran Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus drivers along the B15 route eight days apart have both their union and the MTA asking for quick passage of legislation to increase penalties for assaults of transit workers.

“Every single day, nearly 10,000 Bus Operators come to work to move millions of New Yorkers safely to wherever they want to go in this city,” said Craig Cipriano, Acting MTA Bus Company President and Senior Vice President of the NYC Transit Department of Buses. “But too many of them are unable to do that already-difficult work without being harassed or attacked. Verbal and physical attacks on our Bus Operators both rose last year and we are here today to say with one voice that enough is enough.”