News on wesh- 2
Today
07/25/2018
I believe that this
already went viral in social media.
Question?
Would this be in the
news if the bus driver
was a 69 years old
‘White bus driver’
and
the
28 year old blind man
was a
‘Black Man’
or
an immigrant?
Yes
In Milwaukee
Wisconsin!
What about in any
‘Southern State like Florida'
or any
‘Northern State like Indiana'?
What do you think?
When construction
changed a blind man's route,
a bus driver took a detour to help him
By
Andrea Diaz, CNN
Tue July 24, 2018
Thaddaus Turner,
a
public bus driver,
walks
Gene Hubbard,
who is blind,
across the road.
(CNN)
We don't often think
of our public transportation drivers as heroes.
But
in a Wisconsin
town, most of the transit system is made up of everyday heroes.
From a bus driver
who literally ran through traffic just to help a man in a wheelchair,
to a
driver
who pulled over to help an elderly man who fell in the snow,
the
Milwaukee County Transit System bus drivers have become as important as the
county's first responders.
The town's latest
hero is Thaddaus Turner, a 28-year-old bus driver who didn't think twice about
helping one of his passengers cross the street after finding out he was blind.
"The route was
barricaded, it was rough for me as a driver, I can only imagine how rough it
was for him," Turner told CNN.
Helping others comes
as a second nature to Thaddaus Turner.
The passenger, Gene
Hubbard, has been taking the same route to and from work nearly every day for
the last 20 years.
But the route is now
under construction, making it difficult for Hubbard to get around, transit
spokesman Brendan Conway said.
A bystander snapped
a photo of Turner helping Hubbard and sent it to the transit agency.
The agency then
shared it on Facebook and it quickly caught the attention of local new
stations.
"I just can't
say enough about all the bus drivers,"
Hubbard,69, told CNN
affiliate WITI.
"If I don't
have a regular locating point to start from, I may as well be in the middle of
the ocean."
Turner says the
attention the photo generated has really caught him off guard.
"I was
surprised when I saw it in the news,"
he said.
"I didn't think
I would be here right now over something that is second nature to me, and my
colleagues."
