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Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore; images courtesy of City of Raleigh

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Back in June, GoRaleigh bus operators went to the Raleigh City Council to publicly voice concerns about safety issues on their buses. 

Six months later, Chloe Courtney Bohl reports drivers are raising the same issues again.

“We face daily threats, being cursed at, spit on, and even assaulted” by passengers, one driver said. 

Both the City of Raleigh and RATP Dev USA—an international company that operates more than 100 different local transportation systems—sent Chloe nearly identical statements expressing concern for the drivers, but sharing few specifics about solutions. 

Read more of Chloe’s reporting below about the “increasingly difficult and at times unsafe” conditions bus drivers say they are experiencing, and the responses from the city, RATP Dev, and the Raleigh Police Department.

—Sarah W.

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