TRU sends our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Fred Westbrook, who recently passed away from COVID-19. He recently retired after many years a president of Detroit’s bus drivers union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26, fighting for fair treatment of bus riders. For 30 years, he negotiated bonuses for bus drivers if ridership […]
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Many of us can and must stay and home and shelter-in-place. That’s what TRU staff are doing. Yet we know many people must continue to go places on the bus: Nurses and janitors need to reach hospitals, grocery clerks and pharmacy techs need to get to stores, and anyone without a car still needs food
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Public transit workers are absolutely essential. They make it possible for nurses, janitors, and grocery workers to to get to work, accepting significant risks to their own health to do so. Help us thank Detroit transit drivers, mechanics, bus cleaners, and other workers by adding your name to this thank you poster. We will add
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To spotlight and humanize the impact of Coronavirus and people who can’t shelter in place, The New York Times published an image-laden feature of riding the bus in Detroit, calling the bus “a rolling symbol of the disparity in how this virus is affecting Americans.” The No. 17 bus began chugging westward across Detroit. On
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While most people aren’t riding the bus, some people still need to, like medical worker Oneita. She’s “freaking out” that there are too many people riding and not enough social distancing.” Despite that, she believes life without the bus would be “unfathomable.”
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