Accident Prevention

During World War II, NOPSI developed its first training school and began to provide classroom instruction as well as the traditional experience of working with veteran employees on buses and streetcars.

The advent of women operators followed a period of high employee turnover. Higher pay in the defense industry induced many transit employees to abandon bus and streetcar work. Working with less experienced employees, transit officials redoubled efforts to reduce employee and passenger accidents on the city’s overcrowded busses and streetcars. Note the manner in which the newsletter editor identifies the only woman in the group.