Metro Transit adds steps after a group of young people attacked a bus rider
The agency says new steps aim to keep people behind such incidents from staying anonymous in its programs.
OMAHA — Metro Transit says a group of young people was involved in an attack on a rider on a Metro bus on Thursday. In a Nov. 13 statement, the agency called the attack “unacceptable.”
Metro says it is introducing new steps so that the programs it provides do not allow people behind “rare and egregious incidents” like Thursday’s to stay anonymous. The statement does not say what the steps are or when they start.
The agency says safety of riders and employees is at the top of its mind every day. It also says the problem is bigger than Metro alone, and that it takes work with community members, schools, law enforcement, local governments and community organizations. Metro says it regularly works with Omaha Public Schools, the Omaha Police Department and the City of Omaha.
The statement does not identify the young people or the rider, and it does not give a route, a time, the rider’s condition or whether police are investigating.
Source: Metro Transit press release, “11/13/26: Metro Transit statement,” Nov. 13, 2026.
How we checked this: Reported from Metro Transit’s own press release page, opened Nov. 14, 2026, at about 5:20 a.m. CT. Nothing beyond the statement has been confirmed.