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From page 54... ... 54 This chapter describes approaches to making the most of infrastructure resources. It starts with an overview of the questions to ask when infrastructure resources and needs are being assessed. Read the entire page →
From page 55... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 55 restrooms are on the hottest days, or the chance of slipping on icy approaches during the winter. Climate concerns highlight the importance of temperature extremes, flooding, and serious storms in all aspects of transit operations, including restroom access. Read the entire page →
From page 56... ... 56 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access that have an available restroom on non-WMATA property within with establishments to ensure that restrooms remain available. Lease agreements are costlier but ensure restroom availability. Read the entire page →
From page 57... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 57 approach of diverting the bus in off hours to the TA headquarters, which had 24-hour security staff. Both approaches were considered prohibitive given the projected need. Read the entire page →
From page 58... ... 58 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access Building Sites for new structures will need to include a water source, a waste removal source, an electric power source, and communication lines for electronic badge access or security monitoring. The water source can range from tying into existing municipal water to installing refillable water tank. Read the entire page →
From page 59... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 59 Installing Temporary Restrooms In the WMATA hierarchy shown earlier, portable restrooms are only a temporary choice. Their use is restricted to TA property for security reasons. Read the entire page →
From page 60... ... 60 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access One TA purchased high-quality trailers for locations where building or sharing was not an option. They had heat, light, two doors, and several stalls. Read the entire page →
From page 61... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 61 Table 3-2 lists the questions that should be answered in the process. The starred questions are covered in more detail in other chapters. Read the entire page →
From page 62... ... 62 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access can be reached. This was the tenor during restroom committee meetings at four TAs observed around the United States: people knew the problems in their areas, they came in with lists and often with solutions, and they were able to combine their concerns to establish systemwide improvements. Read the entire page →
From page 63... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 63 One medium-sized TA started with a simple Route Evaluation Report, as shown in Figure 3-5, that allowed bus operators to address the range of concerns they noted. To improve the detail provided and their ability to assess and respond to the suggestions, the transit director developed a set of pages on the company portal for bus operators to use to evaluate routes with respect to the infrastructure, scheduling, and planning components laid out in Figure 3-6. Read the entire page →
From page 64... ... 64 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access office. More often, it requires paying attention to the calendars for decision making, as laid out in Table 3-1. Read the entire page →
From page 65... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 65 Click here to submit your infrastructure ideas Click here to submit your planning ideas • Damaged stops • Stop location • Need for shelter • Capacity problems • Terminal concerns • Routing • Lighting concerns • Bus signage • Detour notices • iBus • Facility concerns • LRT • Transitway concerns Click here to submit your scheduling ideas • Run time • Recovery time • Deadhead time • Connection timing • Traffic signal issues Figure 3-6. TA portal for bus operator route evaluation forms. Read the entire page →
From page 66... ... 66 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access to bid and carried out the construction. Although the model looks linear in Figure 3-7, the agency's activities frequently looped back to refine the decision as information from one or another of the 17 stakeholder groups came in. Read the entire page →
From page 67... ... Charting and Developing Infrastructure 67 Unfortunately, this step reduced the multiple-stall restroom to essentially single stalls because the users wanted to lock the outside door. In some cases, the best solution will be to deploy high-quality, secure temporary facilities as needed. Read the entire page →
From page 68... ... 68 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access The restroom access committee then established criteria to determine the priority for making changes, as shown in Table 3-4. The core criteria were the environment and perceived security of the current restroom resources as rated by the committee and how frequently they were used. Read the entire page →

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... 54 This chapter describes approaches to making the most of infrastructure resources. It starts with an overview of the questions to ask when infrastructure resources and needs are being assessed.