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The rule of thumb is three days.

That’s how long Edmonton Transit System can go before someone smashes a glass pane in one of their 2,300 bus shelters throughout the city.

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So it came as no surprise to Trevor Dennehy, supervisor of transit facilities maintenance, when the call came in over dispatch on Wednesday morning. Two panes had been destroyed on a bus shelter on the corner of 120 Street and 107 Avenue.

It was one of three jobs that day and the first reported act of vandalism in the week.

With job sheet in hand, utility workers Robert Young and Pono Vey loaded up their truck inside their Davies workshop with six, 60-kilogram panes of 10 millimetre tempered glass and hit the road.

The team had managed just two days without a call.

Since 2012, more than 3,500 panes of glass have been broken (that number doesn’t include breakages of the older-style small-paned bus shelters) keeping a dedicated team of 14 employees busy most of the year.