RTC provides updates on additional security measures

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Regional Transportation Commission safety officials are providing an update on bus safety after a series of violent incidents over the summer led the agency to implement several new safety measures.

This summer, the RTC changed its security provider to Inter-Con and Added dozens of armed officers.

They have provided all drivers with panic buttons to use if confronted from their buses. These have already been used by drivers ten times this summer.

RTC has also installed AI firearm detection cameras at its facilities, which have detected two firearms to date.

The agency’s security director, Tom Atteberry, says one of the guns was fake and the other was an air rifle, but the discovery still proves the technology works.

Atteberry says there were about 18 passenger-on-driver assaults and four passenger-on-driver assaults between July 1 and Oct. 9.

Atteberry says, “One attack is too many,” but compared to data from recent years, those numbers appear to be declining.

In the 2024 fiscal year, there were 99 physical assaults between passengers on passengers and 26 physical assaults between passengers and drivers.

“People who take the bus every day expect an efficient and fair journey. So we owe it to them to make sure it’s safe,” he says.

Next, the agency plans to build stronger shields for drivers that extend up to the windshield so that drivers are separated from passengers and no one can reach around and hit them.

You can watch Atteberry’s full presentation to the RTC Board of Commissioners Here.

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