Mass Transit Safety & Security Thursday ENL - May 11th, 2023
APTA honors six transit agencies with 2023 Bus Safety, Security and Emergency Management Awards; Unifying security systems for Mass Transit
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SECURITY NEWS
APTA honors six transit agencies with 2023 Bus Safety, Security and Emergency Management Awards
The awards recognize transit organizations for their innovative and proactive safety and security programs.
CA: 'BART must treat this like a crisis': New poll calls on rail agency to hire more police to win back riders
MA: Inspector general: Put MBTA safety oversight somewhere else
CA: Metro responds to rising crime with more drug arrests and 'transit ambassadors'
HI: Honolulu rail safety plans include security cameras, patrols
WA: Citing public drug usage, Spokane Transit Authority restricts access to plaza bathrooms
MO: MO House passes bill allowing guns on buses, in churches and synagogues
INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Transit safety updates from STM and Metro Transit in the Twin Cities
St. Louis Metro Transit to launch metal detector pilot program
FTA releases NPRM on revisions to Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans regulation
OLI awards $214,075 in competitive crossing safety awareness grants for programs in 12 states
Metro Vancouver Transit Police and police partners ramping up patrols of transit system
WMATA final phase of 7000 fleet’s Return to Service Plan
RIPTA to reallocate $100,000 to increase presence of Providence police officers and DID safety ambassadors in Kennedy Plaza
WMATA’s MTPD Captain Aaron Donald and Lieutenant Michael Bradshaw graduate from DCPLA inaugural class
FEATURE
Unifying security systems for Mass Transit
By Jermaine Santoya
The power of a unified system is its ability to bring data together from disparate systems and departments and present it intuitively.
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