The Small Nocturnal Insect In The Room

If there are rats and roaches on city buses, does that mean there are other things to worry about as well? It’s concerning:

Some Brooklyn buses are roach coaches with creepy crawlies joining riders — and one driver had a run-in with a rat.

Drivers and riders said they’re bugged out about conditions on the big rigs pulling out of the East New York depot and urged NYC Transit, which is planning a fare hike next summer, to do something.

“It would bother anyone,” one driver said.

A B45 driver said she had a rodent encounter on her bus Nov. 12 at Livingston and Court Sts. in downtown Brooklyn.

She said she had completed a run and was about to turn around and start picking up passengers in the opposite direction when the cat-sized vermin charged.

“He came from the back of the bus and ran straight at me,” the driver said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I got out of there as fast as I could. He got so close I’m still jumpy about it.”

The roaches are much more prevalent and just as bold, drivers and riders said.

“It’s not uncommon to see roaches on the buses,” another driver said. “It seems like they’re attracted to the warmth of the engine. I’ve had them crawl on my shoes. It can freak you out.”