Metro Transportation Authority ( Mta )

Beginning in June of 1952, when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was founded, advances in transportation in New York City have improved the city’s developing economy and have benefitted people to a great extent. Located in the heart of Manhattan, the MTA headquarters are home to hundreds of different vehicles, ridden by thousands daily. The train tracks and bus routes run through Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx, unifying all five boroughs and improving the lives of everyone

Six months after the assault, the National Office of Country Security presented another shading coded U.S. risk admonitory framework to adequately manage the dangers. The present danger level cautions, the air terminal's and Metro's consistent alarms for unattended and suspicious stuff and the shoe weighs in the air terminal regularly help individuals to remember the 9/11 assaults and the powerlessness of the country to further assaults. The Fringe security and Port and Load Security have been expanded. The expanded efforts to establish safety in outskirt and port security may have a little impact on Americans, however have more effect on migrants, guests, and business voyagers. Quickly after the assaults, everybody felt otherworldly, less materialistic, and understood that what truly matters is friends and family. This has endured to a degree, yet not for eternity. Be that as it may, an enduring change is that everybody is currently mindful of war, terrorism and life's

I appreciated the effort MTA made to address the problem of passengers’ being struck by subway trains. However, the detection technology and awareness campaign could not stop people fallen onto the tracks, voluntarily and involuntarily. In “Why Subway Systems Haven’t Installed More Safety Tech Yet”, Jack Linshi notes “the only safety measure” of New York’s subway system is simply “fear”. Linshi points out “that’s a strange concept in an era when new technologies are emerging every day to protect us from death before we’ve even harmed…[and] why hasn’t technology made subways [safer]?

On our journey to Brownsville the first struggle we encountered was with transportation to get to Broadway Junction. Of course the MTA isn't always reliable but there were frequent stops in between stops. While waiting for the train to get up and running again various people said things like “ugh not again,” “Something always happens on the A” and other similar phrases as well as others that seemed accustomed to train issues. Now if you think about it, the A train is highly populated by Hispanics and Black people. Could this have to do with why the MTA hasn't attempted to fix their transit situation. On another note most of the trains heading toward Brooklyn and the Bronx have the older not modernized train carts than the ones heading toward Manhattan or Queens. Theres a huge change in atmosphere just in the manner of transportation.

The New York City Subway System has an extremely rich and detailed history that dates to the late nineteenth century. Before the system that the public currently takes advantage of when they visit New York City, there were an extensive amount of public transportation options that were available to the general public. For example, horse and carriages, omnibuses, and trolley systems were all used as a means of transportation throughout the nineteenth century. Once the idea for a subway system to be built was introduced, most people did not believe that it was possible. However, they were soon proven wrong after Alfred E. Beach secretly built the first subway system that was used in New York City. Once people saw that subterranean travel was a viable means of transportation, it did not take long until the subway system that is used today to come along. The New York City subway system revolutionized the way the general public traveled throughout the city, and inspired other growing cities to build subterranean travel systems of their own.

Safety around trains, and train tracks is imperative, especially considering that trains can weigh as much as an M60 Tank, and can easily destroy your car, your stuff, and you. Although the

It takes about a mile on average to stop a train. Now that this information has been said, I don’t know why people wouldn’t be safe around these

Since the attack of 9/11, many transit agencies have increased security measures and have taken multiple steps to improve security for all individuals involved in any travel system. Although many improvements have been made, such as traditional

During the course of this paper I will be evaluating the U.S security since 9/11, evaluating their ability to be resilient and evaluating how much progress has been done since 9/11. So you might ask, what is resilience? Resilience is defined as the ability to undergo obstacles and negative situations; and within that, overcome and recover. Prior to 9/11, there were several practices which were acceptable in our transportation system but today are no longer; let’s take a look at a few;

Following the attacks on 9/11, there was an immense focus on the transparent vulnerabilities towards mass transit security. Public transportation systems face significant challenges in making their systems secure. Specifically, the high volumes of passengers of some systems allows them to be attractive targets for terrorist groups and/or organizations (Forest & Howard, 2013). The three main transit systems are rail, sea, and air. These systems are difficult to protect due to open infrastructure, high concentration of travelers, and multiple access areas with limited inspection and control points (Forest & Howard, 2013). However, I would argue that most apparent shift in their overall day to day security operations was airport security. Before

The 9-11 incident shocked the world. People remember the picture of 911 as clearly as they remember yesterday, even though it has been 14 years ago. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its many partners across the federal government, public and private organizations, and communities across the country have worked since 9/11 to build a new homeland security enterprise to better decrease and defend against dynamic threats, minimize risks, and maximize the ability to respond and recover from attacks and disasters. In the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, many trade associations developed or enhanced security operations to deal with terrorist threats. Numerous owners and operators of transportation

In this article “How Safer Streets Can Thwart Terrorists” written by Yonah Freemark, educates us about multiple terrorist attacks that have occurred specifically in the New York area and how the state is working to develop a safer approach. In May of 2017 at Times Square a motorist drove through a large crowd killing one person and injuring many others. Had it not been for a three foot guarding rail, the motorist could have killed many more. Another attack like this happened previously where an average of sixteen pedestrians were killed and since then have doubled. New York is not only the victim of these kind of attacks; famous places like France, Netherlands, and London constantly have attacks like these happen.

The DC Metro system used many crime preventing techniques, even though they did not knowingly use any theory when they build the Metro system. The specific techniques that were used were: architectural design (open floor plans, no dark staircases, no public bathrooms, etc.), vigilant maintenance polices (removing graffiti and trash almost immediately), reducing the number of trains used in non-peak hours, the use of security cameras and escalators, and stringent enforcement polices (Metro police being trained to arrest individuals for quality of life crimes). With these specific techniques, the DC Metro is one of the safest subway systems in the entire United States. This being said, however, there are rival hypotheses as to why the DC Metro system seems so safe, and they make some valid arguments as well. Some of these arguments are: the riders of the Metro mainly represent white upper and middle class populations, not the poor, minority populations, and another is that the data does not include

Along with hover boards and flying cars, high-speed rail is one of the most iconic futuristic technologies discussed today. With great success, European and Asian countries such as Germany, France, Japan and China have been enjoying bullet trains for decades. Japan has been a leading innovator of high-speed trains, and has currently developed a train capable of 315 mph (Shadbolt). This MagLev is revolutionizing public transport and changing how the world view trains forever. The average European high-speed train can travel at speeds in excess of 220 mph (“The 10”). The United States is falling behind in this highly efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly high-speed train race. With the amount of traffic congestion between

A Sydney tramway passenger was injured in collision with another tram, which occurred after the driver collapsed at the controls. The plaintiff argued that the collision could have been avoided if the tramway authority had fitted the tram with system known as ‘dead man’s handle’, a system in use on Sydney’s trains. This would have stopped the tram and avoided the accident. The device had been rejected by the tramway authorities because it was felt that it could cause drivers to become tired, irritated and