Includes $7.3 million for new tech/designs for rail transit safety; and $2 million for projects that redesign transit bus operator compartment.
Training will be more robust and help to reduce assaults on bus operators, conductors, police, and other personnel.
The agency allocated $1 million toward the project with each installed barrier estimated to cost $5,000.
Simulator helps improve operator’s critical thinking as well as command and control of railway procedures and protocols.
Sleep loss leading to human fatigue is a serious issue affecting the safety of the traveling public in all modes of transportation. Simply defined, sleep loss is an inability to receive a proper amount and quality of sleep on a regular basis.
Amends the Criminal Code to make it an aggravating circumstance that the judge must consider if the victim of an assault is a public transit operator, defined to include drivers of not just city and intercity buses and surface rail, but also school buses, taxis, ferries and subways.
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