December 17, 2020
Railroad, Transit Groups Request Vaccine Priority Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Freight rail and transit organizations are requesting that Congress and state governors, respectively, consider their members’ employees as the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has proposed that essential workers, including transportation workers, be included in the second priority group (Phase 1b) of the vaccine rollout, after health care workers and others who are considered highest priority (Phase 1a).
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) joined the Association of American Railroads (AAR) and nine other groups in submitting a letter Dec. 9 to senators on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Transportation and Safety Subcommittee requesting “timely access” to the
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Steve Poftak, General Manager of the MBTA, holds a press conference in the lobby of the Ashmont Red Line station in Boston s Dorchester on June 22, 2020. (Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
A day after MBTA leaders voted to approve a significant set of service cuts, the agency launched another round of advocacy urging Congress to intervene with emergency aid for public transit.
The T added its voice to a #SavePublicTransit Day campaign the American Public Transit Association launched, warning publicly that it will continue to face pressure without federal funding to help replace lost fare revenue amid the pandemic even after deciding Monday to scale back bus, train and ferry schedules.
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