The FTA wrote to T officials mandating 'immediate action' to address several glaring issues its inspectors identified in the policies and practices designed to prevent trains from getting too close to -- or striking -- individuals out in the field.
MBTA officials will face new requirements to submit plans and documents for FTA review, in some cases every day, and must craft and implement an expanded safety training programFederal regulators ordered the MBTA to overhaul its strategy for keeping crews safe when they are on or near subway tracks following five"near misses" between trains and workers, plus a separate employee injury, in the past five weeks.
"Given recent events, the results of FTA's on-site inspections, reports from [the Department of Public Utilities], and the MBTA's backlog of maintenance work which necessitates continued track access for work crews, FTA finds that a combination of unsafe conditions and practices exist such that there is a substantial risk of death or personal injury," wrote DeLorenzo, who is also the FTA's associate administrator for transit safety and oversight.
Workers must be trained with newly revised, expanded materials to access the right of way starting June 15. The DPU ordered two separate"safety standdowns" in the past few weeks related to right of way issues, which required the MBTA to provide immediate training before resuming standard operations. Eng told the T's board of directors that the safety training"places an emphasis on those incidents that resulted in the breakdown of communication and the ensuing near misses."
"I am also accountable for all of the above, and I intend to be out on the right of way to personally see what we need to do and what we can do to continuously improve further as part of our safety procedures," he said.
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