If someone who isn’t wearing a mask boards a bus in Saskatoon, riders shouldn’t look to their driver for help.
Despite it being mandatory to wear a face mask on city transit, the lack of enforcement by operators is a matter of safety.
“Operator assaults are at an all-time high,” said Amalgamated Transit Union Local 615 president/business agent Darcy Pederson. “We don’t want to put our people at risk.”
According to a Saskatoon Transit statement shared by the City of Saskatoon, transit operators in the city do not enforce mask compliance for safety reasons.