News and Updates
Frontline Workforce Development Emerges as Transit Policy Priority for 2014
Posted January 2014
America’s top transit leaders - from both management and labor - are pushing for strong new workforce provisions in new legislation to reauthorize the Surface Transportation Act. Workforce provisions are very modest in MAP-21, the current federal legislation for transit, highways and passenger rail, that is due to expire in September 2014.
Read more...Weekly Update for January 16, 2014
Posted January 2014
This week’s update includes stories on how transit ridership rose 1.5 percent in third-quarter 2013 to nearly 2.7 billion trips, a French firm Keolis wins a commuter rail contract in Massachusetts and how SEPTA plans to take the lead over other transit leaders.
Read more...Weekly Update for January 9, 2014
Posted January 2014
This week’s update includes stories on top transportation challenges in 2014, why more people might be willing to leave their vehicles at home and ride the bus, and MTA Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut plans to step down.
Read more...TWU Workers Ready to Train and Mentor for the Future
Posted December 2013
“TWU Workers Ready to Train and Mentor for the Future” proclaims Local 100 of the Transport Workers in New York City. A new PowerPoint from the Local urges more and better training for current Local 100 members while also opening up opportunities for training and apprenticeship for members of the community, particularly young people.
Read more...Signals Training Consortium Forges Ahead on Training Program
Posted December 2013
The Signals Training Consortium held its second full meeting last week, December 4-6, in Cleveland. The consortium brings together 20 public transportation agencies and their unions from across the country to create a standardized training program for signal maintainers.
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