TWC Holds ATTAIN Bus Operator Committee Kickoff Meeting |
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The ATTAIN effort and associated committees marks the first time the FTA has officially endorsed apprenticeship activity in transit. Given the challenges facing the industry with new technologies and with the need to hire a new generation of workers, apprenticeship is especially relevant right now. The kickoff meeting was attended by labor and management representatives from over 25 transit locations and featured a moderated roundtable discussion with representatives from Valley Transit Authority and ATU Local 265 in San Jose, CA and from Metro Transit and ATU Local 1005 in Minneapolis—St. Paul, MN, both of which have active, successful bus operator apprenticeship programs. The discussion was followed by a Q & A session where attendees were able to ask questions about launching and running an operator apprenticeship program as well as the types of benefits they could expect.
The committee has a strong emphasis on peer-to-per learning around operator apprenticeship and mentorship and is open to U.S. urban, suburban, tribal, and rural public transportation locations and their local unions.
For Technical assistance email us at [email protected] or call us tool-free at 855-888-NTWC.
For more information on the ATTAIN Bus Operator Committee contact Kenyon Corbett at [email protected].
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Route Fifty – March 29, 2022
“By providing projects in the pipeline the potential to advance to construction grant agreements when they are ready, rather than making them wait for the next federal budget cycle to be completed, an opportunity exists to advance the projects more quickly and thereby minimize cost escalation and possible financing costs,” the Federal Transit Administration explained in budget documents.
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SEPTA – March 22, 2022
“SEPTA Key Advantage” will allow participating organizations to acquire SEPTA Key cards directly from the Authority and distribute them to employees. Phase I of the program will be a six-month pilot with three introductory partners – Drexel University, Penn Medicine, and Wawa stores in the city of Philadelphia. These organizations will be reaching out to employees with information on how to register for the program in the coming weeks. The passes will be ready for their employees to use starting on May 1, 2022.
Mass Transit – March 23, 2022
New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) finished installing eight electric vehicle chargers (EVCs) at the Newton Avenue Bus Garage in Camden, N.J. The agency has committed to transitioning its bus fleet to 100 percent zero emissions by 2040 and the installation of the EVCs is a step closer to deployment of NJ Transit’s first battery-electric buses later in 2022.
Metro Magazine – March 28, 2022
“IndyGo prides itself on providing outstanding benefits for our employees, and our hope is that this partnership with Marathon will enhance that benefit even more,” said Inez Evans, IndyGo president/CEO. “The value of having an onsite clinic, and now a network of clinics around the city, will increase access and decrease the cost of healthcare for our team of dedicated employees.”
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APTA – March 28, 2022
“Providing the necessary investment to modernize our public transit and passenger rail systems will allow systems across the country to meet growing community demands for increased mobility choices that will reap economic and environmental benefits nationwide,” said APTA President and CEO Paul P. Skoutelas. “Combined with the advance appropriations in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the President’s FY 2023 budget request will provide historic and generational investments in public transportation that will enable our communities to provide access to opportunities and create family-wage jobs, advance equity, and tackle climate change.”
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Green Biz – March 29, 2022
As the future of automotive power heads away from the internal combustion engine toward electric vehicle technology, the industry has two options: fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), vehicles that use hydrogen as the fuel source, and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), vehicles that rely solely on battery power or electricity. According to a recent PreScouter Intelligence Brief, in the absence of an infrastructure to enable FCEVs, BEVs remain the more appealing option today. However, this could change within the next five to 10 years as investments in hydrogen production and infrastructure increase, potentially pushing FCEVs to outperform BEVs in some segments and become the more sustainable alternative.
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Building Transit Infrastructure |
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Mass Transit – March 22, 2022
After the opening of a popular bus rapid transit (BRT) line, C-TRAN in Vancouver, Wash., is gearing up for the opening of a second line currently under construction. Moreover, C-TRAN is ready to enter planning for its third line. In Minneapolis, Metro Transit is constructing its third arterial BRT line, building on the success of its first two. These two communities in different regions share one thing: the appetite to build on their success and create not just a single BRT line, but a network. Both cities partnered with transit industry consultant HDR to help plan and design these expansions.
Mass Transit – March 22, 2022
Capital budgets – especially those at rail transit agencies – have weathered the pandemic relatively well. There have been high profile delays, as well as acceleration of certain work to take advantage of lower ridership.
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Albert Shanker Institute – April 1, 11:00 am ET
While Bargaining for the Common Good has become more familiar in the last decade, unions have continued to push the boundaries of their traditional roles pursuing common cause with their communities and developing additional avenues for victories for all. For example, unions and community organizations have sought broad-based victories for both their membership and the greater community through the judicial and legislative systems, in addition to the bargaining table. Unions are seeing an unprecedented amount of interest and support. Thus, these are the perfect conditions for an unparalleled level of organizing to expand efforts for the common good at the bargaining table and in all other arenas as well.
United for Infrastructure – April 14, 12:00 pm EDT
On April 14th, United for Infrastructure is hosting an event focused on ways utilities, transit authorities, and local governments can accelerate the electrification of everything in our economy.
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