Taking a transit safety stance

摘要

Last month, Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) introduced the Public Transportation Safety Program Act of 2010 (H.R. 4643), which proposes to provide the federal government jurisdiction over transit-rail safety.rnCo-sponsored by Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) - who chairs the House's transit subcommittee - and Donna Edwards (D-Md.), H.R. 4643 would establish a national public transportation safety program. Currently, the Federal Transit Administration manages a State Safety Oversight program that places transit-rail safety responsibility on states, but the legal authorities of various state oversight agencies are limited and "vary widely," said Oberstar in a prepared statement.