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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Tours BNSF Technical Training Center

2008-12-15

Mary Peters, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, used BNSF’s Technical Training Center in Overland Park, Kan., as the forum to announce several national safety milestones on Thursday, Dec. 11, following a tour of the facility.

During the press conference, Peters highlighted several historic safety achievements for the country’s railroads, highways and skies, including record-low highway fatalities for the past two years. She also thanked the Technical Training Center and Johnson County Community College for the role their public/private partnership has played in making the rail industry safer.

Mark Schulze, vice president of Safety, Training and Operations Support, welcomed Peters to the Technical Training Center and thanked her for her support in her department’s emphasis on safety.

“Thanks to years of hard work and a strong safety focus by railroads and government agencies like the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. rail industry is one of the safest industries in the world,” Schulze said in welcoming Peters.

Peters said key safety benchmarks have been achieved across all areas of transportation, including the nation’s railroads.

“Our focus on safety – from our highways, railways, seaways and airways – has led to one of the safest periods in our nation’s transportation history,” she said. “While we are encouraged by these declines, our work is not nearly complete in making our safe transportation network even safer.”

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