MBTA employee involved in Green Line derailment says agency threw her ‘under the bus’

The operator of the Green Line trolley that derailed near Lechmere Station last October, sending seven riders to the hospital, says she doesn’t like how the MBTA threw her “under the bus” for causing the crash.

Transcript records from the National Transportation Safety Board reveal that trolley operator Daisha Fauntleroy told officials just days after the Oct. 1 incident that she believed the MBTA instilled a culture in which employees were fearful of speaking out.

MBTA Chief Operating Officer Ryan Coholan told reporters hours after the derailment in Cambridge that investigators were focusing on “human factors,” with preliminary findings ruling out problems with the track structure.

“What I didn’t like or what I don’t like about the whole situation,” Fauntleroy told officials during an