Bus driver assaults commuter
A 55-year-old commuter has laid charges of assault against a Tshwane metro bus driver after he allegedly assaulted her on Friday.
The 55-year-old Annette van Vuuren, a Doornpoort resident, was on her way home when she boarded the 17:15 bus on the corner of Bosman and Proes streets. She gave the driver the bus fare and proceeded to her seat.
“The Tshwane Bus Service (TBS) management is to institute disciplinary proceedings against certain drivers that have left some commuters who were without bus tickets stranded at bus stops since the beginning of this week,” said the statement.
The metro said the deviant behaviour of those errant bus drivers constituted misconduct which the TBS management frowned upon.
The SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) affiliated bus drivers have been refusing to carry cash bags this week claiming cash made them easy prey for criminals and demanded that an automated bus fare collecting system be introduced.
The statement said the metro remained committed to introducing the automated system on all its buses and was already looking into the legal and procurement processes related to the contract for the project. “We expect our drivers to continue selling tickets for cash in the buses, carry money bags and pick up all commuters as normal, until the status quo changes,” the statement read.
The statement noted that drivers that had been leaving commuters stranded had been identified and a legal process to institute disciplinary proceedings against them was underway, as the city took a dim view of any form of misconduct committed by any of its employees.
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