Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587, which represents Metro workers, held a memorial Friday to honor Yim.
The event began with a bus processional up Fourth Avenue through Downtown. Roughly 100 buses and maintenance vehicles drove through the city, flanked by police motorcycles. Many of the digital displays on buses read “Shawn Yim” and “#21882,” Yim’s operator number. Another bus read “In Memoriam, Brother Shawn Yim.”
King County operators were joined in the processional by buses and drivers from Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston, Mason, Grays Harbor and Spokane counties, along with buses from as far away as Vancouver, British Columbia, and Portland, Oregon.
After a loop through Downtown and up to Seattle
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