Public transportation drivers have threatened to withdraw their services following an escalation in antisocial behaviour.
Dubliner Stephen Nugent, member of the National Bus and Rail Union said: “The next time there is a serious attack, there should be a complete stoppage of the transport network - bus and rail - to hammer home the message that we won't take this anymore.”
Workers reported at the NBRU biennial conference in Cork that they faced threats, assaults, and racist abuse on an almost daily basis, the Irish Examiner reports.
An emergency motion was tabled calling for workers to reduce services in problematic areas from October 14 ahead of the Halloween period.
Just last week, Dublin Live reported on how a Dublin Bus driver was racially abused by two young female passengers when he failed to stop at a bus stop - despite being told by the passengers in question that it was the wrong one.
And earlier this month, a security guard was hospitalised following a horror attack at Connolly Station.
This was just weeks after another incident where a senior worker suffered a number of broken bones during the assault.
Mandatory prison sentences were called on for those who attacked transport staff, gardai, and paramedics by NBRU union rep Tom O’Connor.
There were 2,488 reported incidents of antisocial behaviour on Irish Rail services between 2013 and 2018 which escalated in the last two years with 789 incidents in 2018.
