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Metro driver helping lost little girl in Fairmount

CINCINNATI —Surveillance video shows the moment a Metro bus driver f

Bus drivers are punched and spit on. What's being done to protect them?

Cincinnati bus driver Ron Bennett was just about to close the door when one last passenger climbed up the steps. It was shortly after 5:30 p.m.

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VIDEO: Passenger accused of attacking bus driver

CINCINNATI -- Police arrested a man who is accused of assaulting a Metro driver aboard a bus, and a dramatic video of the incident has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

Marcellus Thomas, 49, punched and shoved a 67-year-old bus driver at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a police report. The driver told police that Thomas attacked him after a dispute over the fare.

The video shows the driver push Thomas out of the bus, but Thomas gets back inside before he could close the door. They wrestle while at least five passengers try to help the driver.

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CINCINNATI -- City leaders continued their search for answers Tuesday as problems continued to pile up with the streetcar, 18 months into the system's operation.

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  • B.C. Transit drivers will be getting the protection they've wanted for years
    KELOWNA - More than a year after B.C. Transit started testing protective shields for its bus drivers, it has confirmed that they are going to be installing them in all their larger buses. — Mar 20
  • CTA union: workers attacked verbally and physically every day
    The bus drivers union says everyday workers are being attacked physically or verbally. Even though the CTA installed 32,000 cameras across the transit system, the union says that is not enough to deter crime and to protect workers and even passengers. — Mar 18
  • Public transit, private trauma
    Winnipeg bus operators describe frequent verbal, physical abuse on the road and then being thrown under the bus by insensitive colleagues, supervisors — Mar 17
  • Sweeney is not a “Union Guy”
    The number one creed, motto, moral rule to live by for union members is “The pain of my brothers and sisters is my pain too.” Senator Sweeney seems to have forgotten this ... — Mar 13
  • Transit workers glad to avoid strike, still hoping for more pay
    "These companies act as prophylactic between the county and worker," said Larry Hanley. "For the last 40 years, American workers have been taking it on the chin. Workers are fed up. And the more fed up they get, the more they strike back.” — Mar 12
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