LAS VEGAS -- Brakes hiss, windows shake, panels crackle and passengers jolt backward when the chilled vehicles take off from stops scattered throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
That’s the typical scene inside buses operated by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which touts more than 40 million yearly rides.
But for the past couple of years, drivers tasked with transporting riders across dozens of routes on hundreds of buses have increasingly complained to public officials about what they describe as rising dangers on the vehicles attributed to misbehaving and sometimes violent passengers.
