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.
In cooperation with the New York Police Department, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will connect surveillance cameras at key subway hubs to the city’s fiber-optic cable network.
Calgary police have released on-board surveillance video to seek public assistance in finding two men who took an empty Calgary Transit (AB) bus for a joyride.
Southern California commuter railroad Metrolink has barred one train operator and is investigating another for allegedly trying to block the view of surveillance cameras installed in the cabs.
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.