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San Diego Trolley/IBEW 465 and Tri-Met/ATU 757 Registered Apprenticeships Highlighted at Rail Vehicle Training and Apprenticeship Meeting
| Center Presentation on Implementing Registered Apprenticeship Locally at Rail Vehicle Training Meeting |
Registered Apprenticeship is the gold standard for preparing workers for jobs and meeting the workforce needs of businesses. It combines on-the-job learning (OJL) with related classroom instruction that increases an apprentice's skill level and wages. Apprenticeship is an "earn and learn" model - apprentices receive a paycheck from day one, so they earn wages while they learn on the job. Across the country, over 400,000 apprentices participate every year in about 20,000 Registered Apprenticeship programs.
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Public Transportation News
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International Transportation News
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) congratulates Carolyn Flowers on her appointment to lead the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Flowers, who serves as FTA senior advisor, takes over for acting administrator Therese McMillan, effective April 2. Flowers leads a staff of more than 500 in the Washington, D.C. headquarters office and 10 regional offices throughout the United States, and implementing an annual budget of over $10 billion. Flowers' decades-long career serving in public transit provides the FTA invaluable insight and guidance for delivering its programs, policies and initiatives.
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Washington Metro riders might complain about their subway system, but it could be worse - just look at Boston.
popular pastime in Washington, D.C. But area residents may elevate complaining to an art form if Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) officials decide to close off entire lines or sections of the region's subway system for weeks or months at time-something they said was a real possibility earlier this week. Yet if Washington riders want to experience how bad commuting can get when a transit agency fails to properly maintain its transportation assets, they can head to the other end of the Northeast Corridor for a preview of coming attractions: Without drastically accelerated repairs, Washington, D.C., will soon have a subway system like Boston's.
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William Crosbie, who oversaw day-to-day operations and major construction projects along the Northeast Corridor as Amtrak's chief of operations, is expected to be appointed as NJ Transit's leader at a special board meeting scheduled for Wednesday. He would take over from Dennis Martin, the agency's longtime leader of bus operations who has served as interim chief since December, after executive director Ronnie Hakim resigned. Crosbie would become NJ Transit's first director in nine years to start the job with experience running trains, experts said. That background could be critically important for an agency that is facing an imminent financial crisis - there is a $57 million budget deficit.
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Labor union presidents seldom have good things to say about the company boss. But the head of Metro's principal union is praising the transit agency's new chief, Paul J. Wiedefeld, describing him as the first general manager in memory to take safety seriously. The previous ones never "gave a crap" and only "cared about safety on paper," Jackie Jeter, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, said in an interview.
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State transportation officials are launching a public safety campaign to reduce the number of road workers killed and injured each year in Oklahoma work zones. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation announced the campaign Monday, saying that in the last five years 84 people have been killed and 4,260 injured in work zones in Oklahoma. ODOT Director Mike Patterson urged motorists to put away distractions and increase awareness when they see orange signs and cones along roadways.
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is making up to $55 million available for the 2016 fiscal year for the purchase or lease of low- or no-emissions vehicles under the Low or No Emissions (Low-No) Program. The funding can also be used for the required equipment or facilities for low- or no-emissions vehicles. According to the FTA, the purpose of the Low-No Program is the following: "The main purpose of the Low-No Program is to support the transition of the nation's transit fleet to the lowest polluting and most energy-efficient transit vehicles. The Low-No Program provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction and leasing of required supporting facilities."
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Senate Bill 2093, The Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016 passed 26-4 on the Senate floor inside the Tennessee General Assembly today. In short, the "P3" legislation (Public-Private Partnership) will allow the state to work with private companies in bringing a mass transit system to Middle Tennessee. Specifically, the state will own the land and facility, and the private sector will own and run the mass transit system.
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A few weeks ago I was driving from Westwood to Orange County. It was a Friday afternoon, and the roads were jammed. I sat in standstill traffic on the 110, nervously looking over my shoulder to see if the freeway gods would finally allow me to merge into the next lane over. One thought flashed in my mind over and over again, like a neon sign: "This sucks." Luckily, Metro officials have proposed a half-cent sales tax increase to take effect over the next 40 years. If it's approved by voters in November's election, Metro will have the means to enact a $120 billion plan to expand and improve their transit offerings including rail, buses, cycling, foot traffic and yes, even an express lane extension for the 110.
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Maryland transportation officials plan to use ticket revenue from the state's MARC commuter rail system to help pay off debt required to build a light-rail Purple Line in the Washington suburbs, state officials told a Senate committee Monday. Fare revenue from the Purple Line also would be used to cover those payments, the officials said, but the light-rail line isn't expected to be able to cover all of those costs until trains have been running about 15 years. Until then, commuter rail revenue would make up the difference.
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