Comments on: Driver killed on Brooklyn bus

By: Adding cameras to better protect bus drivers :: Second Ave. Sagas

Adding cameras to better protect bus drivers :: Second Ave. Sagas — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:10:12 +0000

[...] two years, Edwin Thomas, a bus driver along the B46, was stabbed to death by a passenger who refused to pay his fare. It took over a year for the MTA to being a driver [...]

By: Transit begins bus partition trial program :: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:01:57 +0000

[...] a New York City Transit bus driver was murdered by an irate passenger in Dec. 2008, the MTA promised a bus partition pilot program aimed at keeping drivers safer. Late [...]

By: To protect drivers, bus partitions :: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:03:51 +0000

[...] one year, Edwin Thomas, a driver along the B46 bus route, was fatally stabbed by a passenger who refused to pay the fare. Three weeks later, the MTA announced plans to start a [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » After murder, a bus driver partition pilot program

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:07 +0000

[...] the recent murder of an MTA bus driver — the first since 1981 — the MTA is going to begin a bus partition pilot program. Ideally, the [...]

By: JoshP

JoshP — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:47:32 +0000

Security guards, or transit police? A radio and a funny hat is not an effective deterrent to the mentally ill and imminently violent.

By: Alfred Beech

Alfred Beech — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:15:27 +0000

Necessarily weak? The Times reports that there are 2,000 MTA security guards who work the subway system, in part to catch fare evaders, but that there are have been no guards specifically assigned to buses. It sounds as if the MTA has been running on the honor system. I wonder how much money the system has been loosing on bus fare evasion.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:26:03 +0000

Clearly, this murdered is more than a little unhinged. That’s for sure.

Fare enforcement on buses is necessarily weak. It’s a flaw but what are you going to do? Driver safety is paramount.

By: Alfred Beech

Alfred Beech — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Wow. The Times article says that bus drivers are instructed not to confront passengers that don’t pay. That makes fare evasion pretty easy.

I’m shocked that someone would kill a bus driver who wouldn’t hand him a transfer after he didn’t pay. The Times article said this was the first murder of an on-duty bus driver since 1981, so luckily such incidents are rare.

By: thedailycommuter

thedailycommuter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:47:35 +0000

that is awful! i hope they caught that bastard!! so senseless.