India, Sept. 24 -- Wednesday, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced the Safe Transit Act, a bill aimed at penalizing the oversight of crime and misconduct on public transit.
This landmark legislation will crack down on violent crime, end rampant fare evasion, and restore public safety across U.S. public transportation systems.
The Safe Transit Act incentivizes public transit systems to adopt more robust crime prevention measures and creates a safety performance benchmark, ensuring each system is held to the same standard. Most importantly, the bill withholds federal funds from transit systems that fail to meet the proposed benchmarks and safety protocols.
Hagerty said some of the nation's most robust and frequently used transit systems ...