Brisbane bus driver assault stats renew calls for physical barriers

“These bus drivers are council employees, and as the leader of this council, the LNP lord mayor [Adrian Schrinner] is responsible for their safety at work,” he said.

“Yet he refuses to take action.”

Cr Cassidy repeated the opposition’s calls for full driver barriers to protect bus drivers at work.

“Labor has repeatedly called for full driver barriers and more security on buses and at interchanges, but Cr Schrinner has ignored all of those calls,” he said.

“Adrian Schrinner spends $6.5 million on advertising himself and $2.6 million on a new bonsai tree house without batting an eyelid, yet refuses to invest in the safety of Brisbane workers.”