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Committee advances transit safety package; members seek cost analysis for non‑armed crisis response
Summary
The Transportation Committee reviewed a transit safety package including panic‑button systems, vendor procurement, dispatcher integration and options to dispatch unarmed crisis responders; members requested a cost comparison and implementation timeline and asked staff to include unarmed responders in agreements.
The Transportation Committee continued its April 23 agenda with a report from the Department of Transportation and Metro safety partners on measures to improve safety for bus drivers and passengers. Committee members discussed vendor selection for video and radio equipment, panic‑button functionality, dispatcher procedures and the prospect of using unarmed crisis‑response teams instead of or alongside police.
H. Bryant Lee of the Department of Transportation presented program details and answered questions about procurement and implementation. The department said a vendor selection is near completion and that deployment across the fleet would continue…
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