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OC Transpo says it is investigating after a woman said one of its drivers was reluctant to help female passengers who were being harassed by a male passenger.

Kira-Lynn Ferderber said she was on the Route 97 near the Mackenzie King Bridge on Tuesday morning when she saw a man being verbally aggressive toward a woman.

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“I heard him saying some weird stuff to her,” Ferderber said. “Then she said, ‘Leave me alone’ … I turned around and that’s when I realized she was kind of cornered.”

Ferderber said that when she tried to intervene by talking to the man, he turned his attention to her.

“He started, like, screaming at me. He called me a bitch. He called her a bitch. He was freaking out,” Ferderber said. “Then I shouted to the driver — I don’t know if he didn’t hear me or her didn’t want to hear me.”

Ferderber said she then went up to the driver and asked for help.

“The driver said, ‘It’s not my job to babysit. It’s my job to drive the bus,'” Ferderber said.