Permanent security, bus shields part of $20-million transit safety plan

City officials are asking council for more than $20 million in new transit safety measures that include stationing security officers at every troublesome transit centre and installing bus shields for drivers.
The details came out in a city report released Tuesday morning that will be debated by council at 1:30 p.m.
The new measures follow two serious incidents on Edmonton Transit last month — a random assault on a teen at the South Campus LRT station and an early morning assault on a bus d