19 drivers quit in the last month alone over safety concerns

Winnipeg’s transit system is facing a crisis that extends far beyond scheduling and service delays. For the city’s bus drivers and other frontline workers, the daily commute has become a gauntlet of escalating violence, fear, and uncertainty.

A surge in violence and its toll

The most recent incident—a bus driver shot in the hand by a youth wielding a pellet gun—has once again thrust the issue into the spotlight. According to Chris Scott, president for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505, the attack unfolded in a matter of seconds. “A young male had walked up to the front of the bus and asked that they be let off. It wasn’t a bus stop… The young man started getting angry, yelling, threatening to beat up the operator,” Scott ex

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