Frustrated over violent attacks, LA Metro bus drivers call in sick to demand more safety precautions.
A Metro bus on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3, 2024. An apparent sick-out by dozens of LA Metro bus drivers over driver safety issues caused delays on Friday, May 3 on at least 41 bus lines, mostly in downtown Los Angeles, South L.A., southern and western Los Angeles County, Hollywood, Long Beach and the South Bay, according to LA Metro and other sources.
A Metro bus on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3, 2024. Many lines were affected by a bus driver sick-out, including this one, Line 2. The action was aimed at raising awareness to bus driver safety issues. Metro alerted passengers to delays and staffing shortages at regular intervals on Friday. In a post at 4 p.m. on X, formerly Twitter, LA Metro wrote: “We may experience significant delays thru 7 p.m. on the following bus lines due to staff shortages: 2, 10, 18, 28, 40, 45, 48, 53, 66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 105, 108, 110, 111, 115, 117, 127, 180, 182, 204, 206, 207, 210, 211, 212, 215, 217, 251, 260, 344, 487, 550, 910, 950.
“As contingency, we will continue our efforts to bring in volunteer extraboard operators, use instructors and trainees, manage the lines to even out headways and focus on maintaining service on lines in Equity Focus Communities,” Sotero wrote on Friday afternoon. On March 21, a No. 2 line bus was hijacked by a man with what looked like a gun and who then crashed the bus into the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at West Olympic Boulevard. As it turned out, the suspect, Anai Lindsey, 24, was holding a BB gun that resembled a handgun. He ran from the crash and later was arrested by LAPD.
Metro’s Board of Directors on April 29 approved an emergency procurement declaration to speed up acquisition and installation of barriers for about 2,000 buses due to the “sudden, unexpected increased severity of assaults on operators.”
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