The Safe Bus Company operated in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1926 to 1972. The company was originally formed to provide transportation to the city’s underserved black neighborhoods. In the 1920s, segregation reached into nearly every aspect of daily life.

2017年1月31日 · Thirteen men pledge their life-savings to form Safe Bus; what would become the largest African-American owned bus company in the nation. WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The year is 1926. In the city of...

2022年3月11日 · Safe Bus was a Black-owned transportation company formed in 1926 to serve the African American community in Winston Salem, North Carolina. It was created at a time when trolleys extended into...

2022年2月28日 · During segregation, bus routes in Winston-Salem that brought workers to the city’s major employers did not extend into Black neighborhoods. That often meant long walks to the main routes or...

2017年1月27日 · Safe Bus was consistently more successful than Duke Power, which provided public transportation in white neighborhoods, or City Coach Lines, which took over those routes from Duke in 1955, says Tina Carson-Wilkins, head of marketing for the Winston-Salem Transit Authority (WSTA).

2020年1月20日 · Winston Salem-1926, Thirteen men pledge their life savings to form Safe Bus which would become the largest African American owned bus company in the nation.

SafeBus offers your School the tools, software and expertise to manage your own fleet of School Buses with zero-touch implementation and contextually assisted workflow. SafeBus lets you focus on your school children and we take care of the rest.

2025年2月23日 · Established nearly three decades before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Safe Bus became the largest black-owned transportation company in the world, operating successfully during the Jim Crow era and beyond.

2012年1月25日 · With the motto "safety and service," Safe Bus Company eventually employed more than 80 drivers and carried 8,000 passengers a day, earning the distinction of being the largest African-American -owned and -operated transportation business in the world. In 1972, Safe Bus Company was purchased by the Winston-Salem Transit Authority.

The SAFE BUS project wants to advance safety in bus networks and support the prevention of attacks on the bus network. The project will bring around the table special security services and the public transport sector and introduce new training initiatives for both managers and bus drivers, making sure that all transport providers have access to ...