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The quality and appearance of passenger amenities declines as stations and shelters age and escalators experience frequent failures. Safety becomes a greater public concern when aging assets fail at critical times, as recent accidents in Boston and Chicago have demonstrated.
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The transit agencies surveyed are primarily multi-modal transit agencies that typically operate heavy, light, or commuter rail services, and conventional bus service. The survey focused on these agencies because it was expected that they would likely have the most advanced asset management systems owing to the complexity of their operations.
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The majority of the responding agencies reported that these efforts produce good results and that their asset condition systems were used to change capital funding priorities to improve their SGR. The responses suggest that the transit agencies use the transit assent condition data as another qualitative factor to be considered in the determination of investment priorities and development of capital programs.
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