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On December 20, 2023, FTA issued a request for public comment on a proposed General Directive on Required Actions Regarding Assaults on Transit Workers. The proposed General Directive would require transit agencies subject to the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP) regulation (49...
Presentation for the State Safety Oversight Reporting (SSOR) Refresher Training Webinar.
On April 18, 2023, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued an Immediate Action Letter (IAL) to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in response to a series of near miss events and deficiencies in MBTA’s implementation of its right of way (ROW) access procedures and...
Watch a Dear Colleague video message from Administrator Fernandez about FTA’s proposed General Directive to address the significant and continuing national-level safety risk related to assaults on transit workers.
Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight & Chief Safety Officer, FTA, provided updates to the Rail Safety Committee on FTA's 2024 safety focus areas and priorities, state of rail transit safety data, FTA's rail transit focus areas, risk-based inspection...
Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight & Chief Safety Officer, FTA, provided updates to the Transit Safety and Security Committee on FTA's 2024 safety focus areas and priorities, state of rail and bus transit safety data, bus-to-person collisions and FTA...
FTA's Ivey Glendon, Safety Data Program Manager in the Office of System Safety and Roy Chen, Engineer in the Office of Infrastructure & Asset Innovation provided an overview of the Office of Transit Safety & Oversight, the Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation and transit...