Transit assaults may be considered a felony

The New York State Legislature is expected to approve a bill making assaults on bus drivers and other public transportation workers a felony, reported the New York Post. In recent months there have been several attacks on transit workers, including the stabbing of a city bus driver last month by a passenger upset that the bus was moving too slowly. Under the legislation, assaulting a municipal train operator, ticket inspector, conductor or bus driver on the job would be a felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison.