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Transit drivers describe escalating assaults, sanitation problems and fentanyl exposure; council seeks better data and security options
Summary
City transit drivers testified about verbal and physical assaults, drug use and sanitation problems on buses. Councilors asked transit officials for clearer data and discussed security models including transit ambassadors and violence-interrupter programs.
Several Albuquerque transit drivers and trade representatives described persistent safety and sanitation problems on city buses during the June 2 public-comment period and asked the City Council for stronger enforcement and security support.
Denise Mooney Archibec, a motor-coach operator with City Transit, testified that drivers routinely face verbal abuse, threats and physical assaults; that buses are often used for drug activity and left with human waste and discarded paraphernalia; and that fentanyl smoke and other hazardous exposures are a recurring problem. "Buses are routinely misused for personal spaces resulting in extensive messes, discarded drugs, paraphernalia including fentanyl," she said, and asked for…
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