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BY ANN SCOTT TYSON The Federal Transit Adminis-
tration pushed ahead last week with preparations for unprece- dented regulation of public tran- sit agencies, directing a newadvi- sory committee to draft a model for safety oversight of the agen- cies. The new Transit Rail Advisory
Committee for Safety (TRACS) — created by the Department of Transportation and composed of nearly two dozen management and labor representatives from transit agencies across the coun- try—held its firstmeetingThurs- day and Friday inWashington. “This is the first time the FTA
has pulled together so many par- ticipants to strategically plan what the future of safety over- sight should look like,” said Rich- ard Clark, director of the safety division of the California Public Utilities Commission. Federal regulation of public
transit is part of a proposal by the Obama administration to bolster safety in the wake of the fatal June 2009 Metro Red Line crash in Washington and rail transit accidents in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and else- where. In announcing its findings on
the Red Line crash, the National Transportation Safety Board in July called on the Transportation Department to “continue to seek the authority to provide safety oversight of rail fixed guideway transportation systems.” TheFTAstill lacks thepowerto
enforce minimum safety stan- dards for the nation’s transit sys- tems, so the new committee can- not start workonregulations. But Congress is considering legisla- tion — supported by the Obama administration—that would give the FTA that authority. FTA Ad- ministrator Peter M. Rogoff said he is optimistic the full Senate will consider the bill before the November elections. It was passed by the Senate Banking Committee in July. “Our principal reason for get-
ting this group appointed and getting it going now is so we can
hit the ground running on transit safety regulation once that au- thority is granted,” Rogoff said. The committee will serve as a resource for those who oversee safety at public transit agencies and advise the FTA on how to strengthen those entities. Cur- rently, he said, such oversight is provided by 27 state organiza- tions, many of which are weak and lack minimum requirements in areas such as conducting in- spections or the education of their personnel. The committee will also exam-
ine the safety management sys- tems developed by airlines and other organizations and work on adapting them for public transit. “You can’t presume that what will work for NASA or an airline will work for the light-rail system in Phoenix,” Rogoff said. Thomas Prendergast, presi-
dent ofNewYork City Transit and an alternateTRACSmember, said local transit agencies generally welcome the assistance. “If you go back 30 or 40 years,
these agencies were totally self- regulated,” Prendergast said. As the number of rail transit agen- cies has grown to more than two dozen, he said, so has the open- ness to oversight. “What was re- buffed and resisted is now more willingly accepted,” he said. The FTA has sharpened its
scrutiny of Metro since the June 2009 crash, which killed nine people, and conducted a safety audit that produced scathing re- sults last spring.Last week,Metro released its latest response, dated Aug. 13, to the FTA audit The FTA saidMetro had taken “acceptable” actions on all 10 of the FTA audit findings, which covered such concerns as staffing, communications atMetro ’ s safe- ty department and developing a system for analyzing and manag- ing safety hazards. ButMetro has not been able to
close out any of the recommenda- tions, in many cases because the FTA is requiring additional pa- perwork, said James M. Dough- erty,Metro’s safety officer.He said most are expected to be complet- ed by year’s end.
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