Governor Baker's privatization of the MBTA has not come close to addressing the authority’s central problem—the underfunding and underinvestment that has contributed to billions of dollars in deferred maintenance and a fragile system.
· American ProspectA police report said Lighty had a verbal altercation with the driver after the driver declined to stop the bus, and he later stabbed the driver in the back of the head with a box cutter.
· www.washingtonpost.comA bus driver is being praised after he spotted a 2-year-old boy walking alone in Milwaukee. A passenger got off to talk to the boy who said he was lost. The bus driver called the police who took the boy home.
· ABC NewsATU International President Larry Hanley has appointed and the GEB has approved Local 1505-Winnipeg, MB, President John Callahan as the 17th International Vice President.
·Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley issued the following statement to mark Independence Day in the United States.
·“The ATU is pleased to wish all Canadians a ‘Happy 150th Birthday,’ on Canada Day, July 1. We particularly wish to salute our members who have carried forward the proud tradition of the Canadian labour movement for more than one hundred years.
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