The Capital Area Transit System’s bus worker union says administrators have allowed a “systemic failure” of safety, citing among other examples a recent event in which an operator shielded a woman and child from a violent spouse for 12 minutes while waiting for responders to arrive.
“The workforce is shocked, frustrated, and fed up,” a release from the union on Sunday said.
The disagreements over safety have led the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1546 to hold off on signing the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan, which CATS is required to submit as a recipient of funding from the Federal Transit Administration…