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NewsAugust 6, 2020

LIRR Restores Full Service Less Than 48 Hours After Tropical Storm

Service on the Port Jefferson, Montauk, Oyster Bay, and Greenport branches has now been restored after suspensions due to downed trees, utility poles, and power lines caused by the most damaging winds since Superstorm Sandy.

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NewsAugust 5, 2020

MBTA Names New Chief Safety Officer

Ronald L. Ester Jr. is responsible for strategic policy development, management, and oversight of safety programs — including construction safety and operational safety.

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NewsAugust 5, 2020

New Mobile App Helps TfL Riders Plan Ahead, Travel Safely

The app improves accessibility information by including a “step-free” mode to access easy-to-navigate views of all stations with street-to-platform accessibility.

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NewsAugust 3, 2020

San Diego’s MTS Making Significant Changes to Use of Force Policy

The agency used many of the principles in the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign and as a guideline for the policy changes.

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ArticlesJuly 31, 2020

How Passenger-Interaction Training Can Help Prevent Bus Operator Burnout

Training and education on interacting with vulnerable populations, would improve both the operator and the passenger experience.

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NewsJuly 29, 2020

AECOM launches New Tech Platform to Support Transit’s Safe Return to Service

TRIPS integrates data and technologies for each point of the passenger’s journey — from helping individuals decide when and how to travel, to informing transit operators when stations or vehicles are nearing capacity.

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ArticlesJuly 29, 2020

How to Turn Cleaning Policies, Procedures into Bookings

Here are the steps you should take to turn the work you have done into the bookings you want.

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NewsJuly 28, 2020

Passio Introduces Contact Tracing Tool to Combat Pandemic

The new module works with existing passenger identification scanning systems to identify and alert transit operators which passengers may have been exposed to an infected fellow rider.

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NewsJuly 28, 2020

Solution, Fogging System Approved by EPA to Fight COVID-19

CURIS System’s CURoxide Hydrogen Peroxide blend and fogging system has been approved for inclusion on the agency’s List N.

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ArticlesJuly 22, 2020

Suppliers Stepping Up Offerings to Help Transit Deal with ‘New Normal’

While agencies were hit particularly hard because of the pandemic, many suppliers, also deemed as “essential,” had to adjust to not only providing the goods and services they already offered, but also find ways to meet the new demands of their long-time partners.

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