The standards allow rail transit agencies one year to create approved protection program.
The Transportation Department’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has finalized a regulation requiring rail transit agencies to develop cohesive standards to protect transit workers doing dangerous tasks.
According to FTA data, 29 people were killed and 144 injured performing track work between 2008 and 2024. To address this rate of deaths, the agency issued a final rule mandating all rail transit agencies to develop and receive FTA approval for a new worker protection program within one year. The final rule also requires the agencies to establish a training program to establish their new safety standards further.
“For the first time, FTA is issuing a national standard to make work safer for the men and women who maintain our country’s transit systems,” said Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg. “We owe them a safe workplace as they provide an essential service to the traveling public.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Deputy Secretary Trottenberg to be led by the Lord as she fufills her role in the Transportation Department.
- For Secretary Buttigieg and Transportation Department officials as they seek to ensure the safety of transit workers.
Sources: Department of Transportation
