Citing a “significant and continuing national-level safety risk,” federal transportation officials have directed transit agencies to assess how well their workers are protected against assaults.
More than 700 agencies, the MTA among them, have been given three months to determine the likelihood of assaults on transit vehicles and facilities and, if the threat is high, identify ways to reduce the risk. Transit agencies serving urban areas of more than 200,000 people must involve labor when doing those assessments.
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