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Includes $7.3 million for new tech/designs for rail transit safety; and $2 million for projects that redesign transit bus operator compartment.
Uniformed personnel will be equipped with radios to report safety and security concerns or biohazards.
Humphrey got out of her wheelchair, guided herself to the floor, slid to the victim and applied pressure to a wound on his neck.
A growing focus on train travel comes exactly as railways become increasingly modernized by adopting connected technologies.
The MTA also announced the creation of the University Partnership for Adaptive Technologies & Mass Transit Innovation.
Rail personnel can submit reports when involved in or observe an incident or situation in which railroad safety might be compromised.
The more our train and subway systems are connected, the greater the number of ways hackers have to penetrate them in order to wreak their unique brand of havoc.
A train traveling at 55 miles per hour can take approximately one mile, or the length of about 18 football fields to stop.
Employees will be at one of the commuter railroad’s 242 stations during the morning commute, distributing educational materials about train and grade crossing safety.