MIAMI – A man was arrested Monday, a day after he allegedly beat a 73-year-old man on the Metromover near the Adrienne Arsht Center, authorities said. Robert Lee Ribbs, 62, is accused of beating a man on the Metromover in Miami. Arrest made in connection with brutal attack on Miami MetromoverAccording to the arrest report, Ribbs confessed to beating Fernandez, and when approached by officers said, “Hey, man, I know what this is about. MDPD arrested the suspect (pictured) who is accused of being involved in a case of aggravated battery on the Metromover. In that case, Joshua King, 25, was arrested and accused of attacking three people on the Metromover on the same day.

MIAMI, Fla. Bus ridership has increased in South Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, but with more people riding the bus, the close quarters can be a place for coronavirus to spread if precautions are not taken. They were just packing people in and at every single bus stop they would stop and load the people on there," Reverend Jerome Starling, a Miami activist, said. Starling rode the bus in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties on Wednesday. He said photos that he took in Miami and videos from Broward showed a troubling amount of passengers not distancing. Local 10 spoke with a man in Broward County who said he has to take the bus to get to work every day.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Amid an ongoing dispute, The Transport Workers Union of America is asking the Miami-Dade County transit director to participate in the #RideNotDie challenge during the coronavirus pandemic. A mobile billboard follows a Miami-Dade County bus while calling for transit director Alice Bravo to endure one shift aboard one of the public buses she oversees. (TWU Local 291)Alice Bravo, the director of Miami-Dade Transit, implied that if she was in Mitchell’s position, she would not have launched the #RideNotDie campaign. “We need a physical barrier between the passengers and the operators.”TWU Local 291 sends a message to Miami-Dade County Transit director. Jeffery Mitchell, the president of the TWU’s Local 291, is asking Miami-Dade County to do more to protect public bus drivers.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The Transport Workers Union of America filed a lawsuit Friday against Miami-Dade County Transportation & Public Works Director Alice Bravo, citing a lack of protection for transit workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the lawsuit, even with reduced ridership, “the county’s public transit system still has a monthly ridership of 1.3 million passengers” as of Tuesday. The union claims transit operators are coming into close contact with tens of thousands of passengers a day, leading to an increased risk of them contracting COVID-19. “Defendant Alice Bravo has failed to provide sufficient personal protective equipment to transit employees -- even though the County has adequate PPE and supplies,” the complaint reads. “She has further not provided transit employees the PPE products within the County’s inventory that provide the highest levels of protection.”The lawsuit claims that Bravo has also failed to provide transit employees with sufficient cleaning products to disinfect their work spaces.