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Today is when Winnipeg Transit riders and Winnipeggers alike are encouraged to thank a bus operator.
Transit Driver Appreciation Day has been celebrated on March 18 since 2009 in the U.S. and marked by the Amalgamated Transit Union since 2014.
Two women were assaulted Wednesday night at a Winnipeg bus shelter before two transit supervisors intervened.
Police were called to the area of Graham Avenue and Fort Street at around 7:20 p.m.
A Winnipeg Transit driver is facing charges after a fatal crash involving a pedestrian 16 months ago.
A man in his 50s was struck by a bus the afternoon of November 13, 2017 at the intersection of Graham Avenue and Fort Street. He later died in hospital.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
Winnipeg Transit drivers were told Thursday not to display messages on their buses in memory of a colleague murdered on the job exactly two years ago.
Transit officials issued a memo to drivers to not display “RIP #521” or similar messages on large electronic signs on the front of buses that can alternate between the route name and other notifications. The phrase is a reference to the badge number of Irvine Fraser, who was stabbed by a passenger on Feb. 14, 2017.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A jury found a passenger guilty of second-degree murder Thursday for stabbing a Winnipeg transit operator who had removed him from a bus at the end of a late-night shift.
Irvine Jubal Fraser, 58, was stabbed multiple times during a fight with Brian Kyle Thomas in February 2017.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A defence lawyer is arguing that a bus driver stabbed to death in a fight with a passenger could have pulled out the knife that he was eventually killed with.
Evan Roitenberg told jurors that security camera footage shows the shadow of a weapon in driver Irvine Jubal Fraser’s hand.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg bus driver was killed on the job by an angry passenger who refused to leave the vehicle at the end of a run, a Crown attorney said at the opening of a two-week second-degree murder trial.
Irvine Jubal Fraser, a 58-year-old driver working the late shift, was spat on and repeatedly stabbed after forcibly removing Brian Kyle Thomas from the bus, Crown attorney Keith Eyrikson told the jury Monday in his opening statements.
Few things in life are free, but on New Year’s Eve, you can count on a free ride safely home from Winnipeg Transit.
The free ride program to all regular and Handi-Transit service will begin at 7 p.m. on December 31 until the end of service. The last buses leave downtown at approximately 1:35 a.m. on January 1
