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COPTA safety update: streetcar onboarding, track access training and mental-health outreach credited with life-saving winter intervention
Summary
Safety staff reported onboarding 30 streetcar employees, providing track-access and towing training and piloting a temporary transit center; staff credited Mental Health Association outreach with a winter rescue that likely prevented limb loss.
COPTA’s safety and training report on July 11 covered operator onboarding, track-access training, a temporary transit-center pilot and the authority’s mental-health outreach work that staff credited with reconnecting a vulnerable person to family and securing emergency medical care. Safety staff said they onboarded 30 former contractor employees into the streetcar operation and trained them on more than 100…
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