This isn’t the first time that bus drivers have worked with a protective barrier, he said. IT devised its own barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic and then had to adjust again once it ended.

After a bus driver was fatally stabbed, transit officials expedited plans to finish armoring the bulk of its 2,017 buses with protective tempered glass to shield drivers from passengers. It is the ...

This isn’t the first time that bus drivers have worked with a protective barrier, he said. IT devised its own barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic and then had to adjust again once it ended.

Another day, another accident of a driver who misused navigation apps; this time, a bus driver hit an overhead barrier; the ...

Barriers to protect bus drivers have been installed on Metro's entire fleet, the transit agency said Tuesday. The barriers are designed to protect drivers. In April, the Metro board approved an ...

Metro announced earlier this week it had completed installation of the barriers on all of its more-than 2,000 buses, making it the first transit agency in the U.S. to equip its entire bus […] ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — King County Metro Transit is retrofitting as many as 1,300 buses with partitions as part of an initiative to improve safety conditions for bus drivers. On Tuesday, Metro Transit ...

The bus operator of the Line 81 bus, who had a gun pointed at his head by the hijacker was not removed from the driver’s seat because he was protected by the barrier, Hahn said. Also, the ...

This isn’t the first time that bus drivers have worked with a protective barrier, he said. IT devised its own barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic and then had to adjust again once it ended.

Metro launched its barrier installation project in 2022 and retrofitted a small number of buses in 2023. In April, after a bus driver was fatally stabbed, transit officials expedited plans to ...

LA Metro has finished retrofitting its bus fleet with full plexiglass barriers to provide an additional layer of protection for its drivers. Metro announced earlier this week it had completed ...

Metro's bus system is the second busiest in the United States. The agency has provided more than 222.7 million bus rides since November across a 1,447-square-mile service area with more than ...