Jonathan Pettigrew was shot and killed<\/a> Monday on board a Bx36 bus near East Tremont Avenue and White Plains Road. Investigators are still searching for the shooter.<\/p>\nThe violence comes as police say another man was taken into custody Thursday after allegedly vandalizing a Bx19 bus in Hunts Point. In a separate incident on the other side of the borough, another confrontation left a bus windshield cracked and sent one person to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Some riders say they are now reconsidering how safe they feel on buses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can take the train, but I feel safer on the bus, but now I am starting to not feel safe on the bus,\u201d said Tekora Alexander, of Hunts Point.<\/p>\n
The Transport Workers Union is calling for more safety measures, including undercover officers on buses and bulletproof dividers for operators.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody should pay their fare, but what about feeling safe when you get on a bus where you\u2019re not gonna get shot,\u201d said TWU President John Chiarello.<\/p>\n
Chiarello said drivers remain vulnerable behind the wheel.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, we have nothing to stop that bullet,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky. At a certain point, it\u2019s not luck anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MTA declined to comment on the incidents or what additional safety measures, if any, it plans to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx bus riders say they are on edge after several frightening incidents aboard MTA buses this week, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-261458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}