Bill Burke, the chief of police for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, has passed away.

Amtrak plans to install video cameras to monitor the engineers of locomotives on its heavily traveled routes in the northeastern United States.

For Chanda Litten, light rail in Sacramento is the way to get around although she was sometimes faced with characters who made her uneasy. “It’s really dark, and you see some undesirables,” she reported to a local TV station. “It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it can be very scary.” Norm Leong, the head of Regional Transit Police in Sacramento, California, plans to improve the system through use of more video and patrol coordination with local police.

A bill introduced by the New York City Council will force every taxi and livery car in New York City to have a panic button that riders could use to hail police.

Owen Monaghan has been appointed vice president of security for MTA New York City Transit (NYCT).

The TSA has commended five rail and mass transit agencies for earning the administration's highest security rating.

The federal government said that it will take action this year that could eventually require Metra and other railroads to install inward-facing video cameras in locomotives.

Raymond Diaz, former chief of the New York City Police Department Transit Bureau, will become director of security at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

Bus drivers in Detroit want better security after they say at least eight drivers were hospitalized after attacks by riders in the last nine months.