New York City Reaches Deal With Bus Drivers Union on Safety Law
Source: NY Times
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
After clashing repeatedly this year over a new traffic safety law, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city’s major bus drivers union came to a fragile truce this week.
The city reached a settlement on Monday with the union, Transport Workers Union Local 100, on a federal lawsuit challenging the law that led to the arrest of several bus drivers involved in serious crashes.
The law, passed last year as part of the mayor’s Vision Zero traffic safety plan, made failure to yield — which had been a traffic violation — a misdemeanor crime in some cases in which a driver injured or killed a pedestrian or cyclist who had the right of way.
The union has pushed for city bus drivers to be exempt from the law. At least six bus drivers have been charged since it went into effect in August 2014.
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