Category: Amtrak/Commuter
Conservatives pressing attack on working families
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Public transportation funding, transportation jobs, workplace safety, Railroad Retirement and Medicare are under a mean-spirited and sustained attack by congressional conservatives who are trying to muscl [...]Senate transport bill only a first step
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A two-year blueprint for transportation spending has emerged from the Senate, but House action still is required before a bill is ready for President Obama’s signature into law. Notwithstandi [...]Job briefings save limbs and lives
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Job briefings can prevent serious injuries and fatalities, says the Federal Railroad Administration in a switching fatalities and severe injury update. The FRA cites 23 fatalities that have occurred as a [...]
Metrolink leading way installing PTC
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Positive train control (PTC) is modern technology to reduce train accidents, save lives and limbs, improve on-time performance and produce revenue-enhancing business benefits for railroads. PTC utilizes t [...]OSHA elevates whistleblower priority
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Whistleblower protection administered by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been elevated in agency priority, with the program now administered [...]NJT conductor charged in ticket fraud
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A New Jersey Transit conductor has been arrested and charged with official misconduct, theft and conspiracy, according to news reports, following a seven-month investigation into missing ticket money. The [...]Rep. Bucshon: Tear down that bill
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A daily fact of life for train crews is transportation to and from terminals in shuttle-vans operated by firms under contract to railroads. Over the past year, four crew members died and another was serio [...]3 crewmembers dead in VIA Rail derailment
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. BURLINGTON, Ont. – Three Canada VIA Rail crew members riding in the lone locomotive of a five-car passenger train died in a derailment here Feb. 26. More than 40 passengers and another crew member were in [...]