Are transit workers adequately protected against COVID-19?
How Seattle's measures stack up up against the rest of the country, and whether it's enough.
Earlier this month statistics emerged that showed employees of New York’s Metro Transit Authority were dying of COVID-19 at three times the rate of the city’s fire and police departments.
Transit agencies across the country have seen plummeting ridership even as drivers say they’re still being exposed to outsize risk with inadequate protection.
CityLab’s West Coast bureau chief Laura Bliss wrote about the issue in a piece called "Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns."
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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