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News•October 27, 2021

OCTA Board Approves Contract to Maintain Orange County’s Bus Stops

The OCTA board approved a $1.6 million contract with ShelterClean Services, Inc. for a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, with the option to extend the contract through 2028.

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News•October 27, 2021

FTA Recognizes Outstanding Rural Transit Agencies

The FTA named agencies in Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, and Texas as recipients of the “Connecting Rural Communities” Award. 

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News•October 8, 2021

TransLink Implementing Mandatory Vaccination Policy for Employees

The policy applies to all employees of TransLink, Coast Mountain Bus Company, BC Rapid Transit Co., and Transit Police.

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News•October 5, 2021

SEPTA Approves Measures to Add More Social Outreach Workers

These specialists will add to teams that are already deployed on the system to assist individuals experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental illness.

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Articles•October 4, 2021

Cybersecurity and Transit: What Transit Agencies Need to Know About Cyber Risk

Between June 2020 and June 2021, the transportation industry witnessed a 186% increase in weekly ransomware attacks. As such, it is even more imperative that transit operators treat cybersecurity with the same seriousness as physical operational security.

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News•September 29, 2021

Bacteria-Killing Copper to be Installed on Toronto, More Vancouver Transit Vehicles

The new round of testing seeks to confirm those results from the first phase in Vancouver by evaluating copper surfaces on more transit vehicles over a longer duration of time across two different regions.

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News•September 29, 2021

FTA Announces RFI on Transit Worker Safety

This is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to help ensure the safety of American workers.

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News•September 28, 2021

CTAA Releases Report on Transit Agencies and their COVID-19 Vaccination Policies

The survey received a total 120 responses from agencies across the U.S.

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News•September 22, 2021

New York’s MTA to Increase Mask Enforcement Throughout the System

The goal of heightened enforcement is to increase mask usage across all agencies, and to return to 2020 and early 2021 compliance levels where nearly 100% of riders wore masks onboard subways, buses, commuter railroads, and paratransit vehicles.

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News•September 21, 2021

L.A. Metro Launches 'Keep Metro Clean and Safe' Campaign

Metro said it will increase compliance with rules requiring masks to be worn and banning smoking and littering on the system.

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