Eight months after Edmonton bus driver Mike Kostelny was stabbed 22 times by a teenager in a violent unprovoked attack, the first driver safety shields were recently installed on four Edmonton Transit Service buses. Local 569-Edmonton, AB has been pushing for the shields for the last couple of years and is happy to see them finally installed. “I don’t think there’s any other major transit jurisdiction in North America that’s going to have shields in all their buses other than Edmonton,” said Local President Mark Tetterington. The shield has a metal door that separates the driver from the bus. The top half of the shield is open to the vehicle but has a power glass window that can be raised if an emergency situation arises. Read more at Global News