Surrey Crime Prevention Society and Transit Police

Transit Police: Sure, vehicle operators, staff, and transit police officers are involved too but the majority of our time is spent in give-and-take with other riders. Our interactions don t get to be mediated by things like lights, road rules or lane markings, according to Metro News. Last week, Transit Police and the Surrey Crime Prevention Society announced a collaboration on a pilot program. The program, Transit Watch, adapts the existing volunteer patrol activities for public transit spaces mostly Surrey four SkyTrain stations and the Newton bus loop. Transit Police are contributing training, radios and high-viz gear, travel expenses, and funding for the program part-time co-ordinators and Safety for transit is different compared to travel modes like cycling, driving and walking, because it relies primarily on direct negotiation with other people. The fragility of our social contract is most keenly felt on transit. Are we flexible or unforgiving? Making or avoiding eye contact? These matter for all modes, but their impact is intensified in transit by virtue of the length of our journeys and closer confines. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.