The all-electric vehicles include Class 3 passenger vans and Class 7 motorcoaches, which are all currently either in service, or soon to be in service, at some of the leading tech companies in the region.
The agreement between ATU and RTA covers 518 represented employees, including bus, streetcar, and paratransit operators, dispatchers, reservationists, clerks, transit tellers, transit information operators, router editors, and training instructors.
The Automatic Securement Stations are currently available in 79 buses, or 40% of the active fleet.
The opening comes after a months-long process of getting input from transit riders, area residents, elected officials, and stakeholders through a series of virtual Design Workshops, surveys, and community events — and completing construction.
Despite this decrease, overall casualties have increased since the coronavirus lockdowns ended and traffic has returned, with continued action still needed to achieve the Mayor Sadiq Khan's Vision Zero goal of eliminating death and serious injury from the transport network.