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1 Executive Summary In the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act of 2012 (MAP-21) , Congress for the first time gave the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
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2 ADMISSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRANSIT SAFETY PLANNING RECORDS sit safety performance was regulated was through tort litigation and its potential to deter unsafe behaviors and conditions. A series of high-profile transit accidents prompted Congress to supplement the tort system with a new federal regulatory regime.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 of all the public interest considerations that have led Congress to grant evidentiary protections, but their existence in the other public transportation modes creates a rationale for extending them to transit. In considering the conflicting views of those favoring and opposing such protections and the paucity of empirical evidence supporting either side, the committee could find no compelling reason to advise Congress to contravene current practice by treating transit agency safety planning records differently.
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4 ADMISSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRANSIT SAFETY PLANNING RECORDS effort to encourage high-quality safety planning, Congress not reduce the public availability of protected records under federal and state open records laws. (The committee recognizes that more comprehensive confidentiality protections may apply to workers in close call reporting systems.)
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