Category: News

Foxx announces grants to promote transit jobs

August 27, 2015 LOS ANGELES – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced $9.5 million in grants to 19 projects in 13 states selected to help train a new generation of skilled workers and support long-term careers in the public transportation industry. The announcement was mad [...]

Tags Anthony Foxx, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, Grow America Act, Secretary Foxx

Amtrak worker dies after accident

August 26, 2015 Amtrak says a worker has died after an accident at a maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana Saturday morning, August 22. The Beech Grove Fire Department responded to a call of a burned person at the facility in the 200 block of Garstang Street just after 11:30 a.m. Fir [...]

Tags accident, Amtrak, fatality

Transportation Division sets 2016 regional meetings

August 25, 2015

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Tags 2016 regional meetings, Chicago, San Francisco

Working safely with Diabetes

August 25, 2015 Diabetes has been called an epidemic in America. A 2014 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 29.1 million people in the United States – almost 10 percent of the population – have the disorder. Of those, 8.1 million are undiagnosed. The sev [...]

Tags Diabetes, worker safety

NJT receives $71.4 million in emergency relief funding

August 24, 2015 The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will award New Jersey Transit more than $71.4 million in Hurricane Sandy recovery funds for various repair and resiliency projects. These projects include recovery and resiliency work currently underway, such as the elevation of key s [...]

Tags emergency relief funds, FTA, NJ Transit, NJT

OSHA explains process of whistleblower resolution

August 20, 2015 WASHINGTON – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued policies and procedures* for applying a new process for resolving whistleblower disputes. The new process is an early resolution process that is to be used as part of a regional Alternative Disp [...]

Tags Administrative Dispute Resolution Act, ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution, OSHA, whistleblower

Major route changes coming to Big Blue Bus

August 20, 2015 SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Big Blue Bus (BBB) is preparing to meet the train, embarking upon major service and stop changes over the next twelve months as part of the Evolution of Blue campaign. The first phase of the Evolution of Blue plan to integrate BBB’s service with the Exp [...]

Tags Big Blue Bus, route changes

SEPTA immersed in planning for papal visit

August 18, 2015 Ever since November 2014, when Catholic Church officials confirmed Pope Francis will visit Philadelphia over two days this September, there’s been an all-hands-on-deck mindset at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Philadelphia officials esti [...]

Tags Pope Francis, pope visit, SEPTA

FTA proposes rule to establish transit safety program

August 18, 2015 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a proposed rule to establish a Public Transportation Safety Program under FTA’s new safety oversight authority established by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century [...]

Tags Federal Transit Administration, FTA, MAP 21, safety, Safety Management Systems, SMS

Legislative, Alt. Legislative Rep. elections planned

August 17, 2015 Members and SMART Transportation Division (TD) Local officers are reminded elections for the positions of Legislative Representative and Alternate Legislative Representative are being conducted this autumn by all TD Locals, with nominations to be taken at the October 2015 mee [...]

Tags alternate legislative representative, elections, legislative representative, local elections