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Transit Elevator/Escalator Training Consortium Gears Back Up
On Tuesday September 16, 2014 the Center's contract with FTA for the second half of work on the Transit Elevator/Escalator Consortium was executed meaning that efforts will now be ramped up. In the interim, the Center has been updating courseware as per findings from pilots and organizing manufacturer specific documentation to build out courses 302 and 303, OEM specific inspection and maintenance for escalators and elevators, respectively. A full consortium meeting is being planned for this Fall.
For more information on the Transit Elevator/Escalator Training Consortium, contact Project Manager Jim Kinahan.
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MBTA Pilots Signal Consortium Course on Inspection and Maintenance of Switches and Derails
Last week, MBTA piloted three modules of Course 202: Inspection and Maintenance of Switches and Derails. This course builds on Course 102: Introduction and Overview of Switches and Derails to assist participants in demonstrating safe inspection and maintenance of switches, derails, and their associated components. The three modules which MBTA focused on were:
* Module 1: Safety and Overview
* Module 2: Advanced Print Reading
* Module 3: Generic Inspection and maintenance.
As intended, MBTA took this generic foundation course and supplemented it with field trips to their specific equipment and conducted classroom activities with electrical prints from their location. Other modules in Course 202 focus on the inspection and maintenance of manual, electric, electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic switches and derails.
For more information on the signals training consortium, contact Project Manager Mark Dysart. To see more photos of this pilot in action, like the Center on facebook. To see previews of this courseware, visit Transit Training Network.
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The Hill - September 15, 2014
Sixty-eight percent of U.S. residents want more federal spending on public transportation systems, according to a polled released on Monday by a Washington, D.C.-based transit advocacy group. The survey, which was conducted by the Mineta Transportation Institute for American Public Transportation Association, showed a two point increase in support increased transit funding than a similar poll that was conducted last year.
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CBS - September 12, 2014
New Jersey Transit is expanding its mobile ticket-purchasing app to include bus routes. Starting September 25th, passengers will be able to buy their monthly pass for 59 routes in South Jersey on the "MyTix" app.
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The Hill - September 11, 2014
The House is proposing a 40 percent funding cut for Amtrak construction in a new passenger rail bill that was unveiled on Thursday by the chamber's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Amtrak has traditionally received about $1 billion per year from the federal government since its inception in 1971.
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CBS - September 10, 2014
SEPTA, the regional transit agency, is teaming up with a crisis response center and the Montgomery County government in an effort to prevent suicides. To help mark National Suicide Prevention Week, Septa is now installing signs at the boarding areas of the Norristown Transportation Center, highlighting the number for a suicide prevention hotline.
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Progressive Railroading - September 11, 2014
MTA Metro-North Railroad has completed a project to rebuild a switching control house in Cos Cob, Conn., four months ahead of schedule, railroad officials announced this week. The project's completion means that a nine-mile section of the New Haven Line between Port Chester, N.Y. and Stamford, Conn., is fully operational for the first time since May 10, when a fire destroyed the previous control house, Metro-North officials said in a press release.
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St. Louis Public Radio - September 15, 2014
National AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka says that the unrest in Ferguson illustrates the need for a more vigorous national discussion on race and racism. And labor unions, which have had their racial problems, must be part of the conversation, he acknowledged. "We have to be willing to look at ourselves critically,'' Trumka told reporters Monday. "If we have things that need to change, we need to change them. We're not perfect. We're trying to get better every single day. But we're not perfect."
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The Indypendent - September 12, 2014
From teachers to transit workers, civil servants to electricians, the People's Climate March will have more organized-labor participation than any environmentalist effort in U.S. history. More than 50 unions, including some of the city's biggest, are among the organizations sponsoring the march.
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New York Times - September 12, 2014
Education is supposed to be America's primary engine for social mobility, but growing economic inequality is vividly reflected in our nation's top colleges. At the nation's most selective 193 colleges and universities, affluent students outnumber economically disadvantaged students by 14 to 1.
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The Obama administration and governors from Michigan to North Carolina have a solution for some of the U.S. manufacturing sector's woes: German-style apprenticeship programs. But their success is proving to be unusually one-sided, mostly drawing firms based in Germany and other non-U.S. countries. In North Carolina, "Apprenticeship 2000," a program combining classroom work and on-the-job training, has drawn numerous German companies but so far only two U.S. firms, Ameritech Die & Mold Inc. and Timken Co.
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) has released a request for expressions of interest for air rights to develop space atop four rail stations as part of the agency's transit-oriented development program. The Arts Center, Lenox, Midtown and North Avenue stations are located within two Atlanta business districts.
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