The MBTA adopted a no-cell-phone policy over a year ago, but some customers are reporting drivers for talking on authorized radios. To clear up the confusion, the agency is adding bright orange reflective tape to radio handsets.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) is installing cameras on its buses to help document incidents and encourage safer driving habits.
After a series of robberies at a suburban Red Line station, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority set up a surveillance trailer in the parking lot.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and communications.