With the solution, any Metro passenger who feels uncomfortable or at risk can open the app and hold their thumb on the safe button.
The app automatically disables the user’s smartphone flash to ensure discretion, and reports can be made anonymously.
Includes adding technology to make riding the bus more reliable and adding new bus routes, which will cost about $1.5 million.
Riders can discreetly report suspicious activity, vandalism, graffiti, disruptive behavior and maintenance issues or receive notifications.
Will deploy security guards at 25 transit centers/stations that have had at least one major incident reported in the past five years.
Includes boosting visible presence of police and employees in the system, enhancing surveillance cameras, and increasing public safety outreach.
In the past, Caltrain has used a proof-of-payment/honor-based system, and conductors were responsible for daily fare inspections.
Transit facilities — train stations, bus depots and transportation centers — are often the shelter of choice for people experiencing homelessness, especially when weather conditions make it too dangerous to stay outside.
The passive system triggers an alarm if an individual carrying/wearing a person-borne improvised explosive device passes by the mechanism.
In an MBTA Transit Police affidavit filed in Dorchester District Court, investigators said the driver told authorities he reached into his backpack to “take a quick peek” at his phone shortly before the Dec. 29 crash.
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