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In addition, drivers who work the split shift, which requires them to drive routes in the morning and evening, will earn a higher hourly wage to make up for the downtime. Wages for drivers will rise 25 percent on average, depending on what they were making before and their seniority.
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From Sept. 5, the TTC will be restoring 126 school trips for elementary and secondary schools and will be increasing frequency on nine routes that serve post-secondary institutions.
Read More →Safety Alert 066 was prompted in part by the deaths of two rail workers who were struck and killed by a train in Edgemont, S.D, Jan. 17, 2017.
Read More →Railroads will no longer have to conduct risk analyses to obtain approval to not install PTC or take other costly risk mitigation measures on an estimated 10,000 miles of track that will not carry passenger trains or poison inhalation hazard commodities after December 2015.
Read More →The investigation indicates that the train derailed after traveling eastbound over a switch intended for a straight move that was in fact misaligned for a diverging route.
Read More →The Bombardier ALP-45A locomotives will replace some of the older PL-42AC series diesel locomotives in the agency’s fleet.
Read More →Contacted experts in the field of track signaling to conduct an independent review. Other actions include staff realignment; shifting the position of the 1000-series cars; and operating all trains manually.
Read More →During the week-long "blitz," law enforcement personnel will be positioned at various grade crossings, where they will be issuing warnings and citations to drivers and pedestrians who do not adhere to the laws relating to trains and railroad tracks.
Read More →Security countermeasures will provide additional right-of-way protections for passenger trains, particularly those operating on the Northeast Corridor. They will join existing Amtrak security efforts focusing on threats related to the use of improvised explosive devices in a station or on a train, or an active shooter scenario.
Read More →In the four months following a large fare hike and a change in offerings, the agency sold 353,798 passes — down from 628,648 in same period in 2011.
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