Donald Payne Jr.: “Ultimately, for public alerts and warnings to be effective, the public has to trust them.”

I introduced the One-Seat-Ride Act, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of a one-seat-ride trip versus a transfer trip option during peak hours on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line.

This is a crucial hearing because many of my constituents and all New Jerseyans understand that Amtrak service is critical to our economy and to our livelihood.

It is time for Congress to require that freight railroads participate in the Confidential Close Call Reporting System.

Thanks in large part to this Committee's past efforts, Congress passed the STB Reauthorization Act of 2015.