File #: 2024-0982   
Type: Plan Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/2/2024 In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
On agenda: 1/16/2025 Final action:
Title: APPROVE the revised Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP), Version 1.4 (Attachment A), which incorporates new Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requirements related to Safety Management System (SMS) implementation and documents Metro's processes and activities in compliance with Federal and State regulations.
Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
Indexes: Audit, Federal Transit Administration, Labor, Plan, Safety, Safety and security, Safety programs, Strategic planning, System Safety Management, Transit safety
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) - Ver. 1.4, 2. Presentation
Related files: 2020-0085, 2022-0524
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JANUARY 16, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AGENCY SAFETY PLAN

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
APPROVE the revised Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP), Version 1.4 (Attachment A), which incorporates new Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requirements related to Safety Management System (SMS) implementation and documents Metro's processes and activities in compliance with Federal and State regulations.

Issue
ISSUE

Metro's original PTASP, which the Board approved in April 2020, was developed in accordance with Federal and State mandates that require Metro to establish and implement such a plan. In April 2024, the FTA issued revised regulations affecting the PTASP, necessitating revisions to the safety plans established by transit agencies. FTA regulations require the PTASP and revisions to PTASPs to be approved by the Board of Directors.

Background
BACKGROUND

The FTA published the first PTASP Regulation, 49 C.F.R. Part 673, on July 19, 2018. The regulation implements a risk-based SMS approach and required Metro to have a PTASP in place no later than July 20, 2020. Metro complied with this requirement by implementing its PTASP in April 2020. The PTASP is one element of FTA's comprehensive Public Transportation Safety Program. The State Safety Oversight Agency, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), adopted the requirements of FTA's regulation in its General Order 164-E and is charged under the regulations with the review and approval of agency PTASPs. Revisions to the original rules were issued by the FTA in April 2024, which requires transit agencies to update their PTASPs to incorporate the new requirements. Metro's revised PTASP includes the new requirements and will be made effective in January 2025.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

The PTASP, which is applicable to both bus and rail mode, essentially is a...

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