New MassDOT Website

As part of the historic transportation reform underway, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, MassDOT, will launch a new customer-focused website at 12:01am on November 1, 2009.  The web address:

www.mass.gov/massdot 

The new website design, developed in-house by a team of employees, provides information and links for all transportation agencies in one place, with four main sections for the four new transportation divisions (Highway, Rail&Transit, Aeronautics and Registry of Motor Vehicles).  A new transportation calendar will provide residents and businesses with a single location to view public events and hearings hosted by MassDOT.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles Division home page design will be updated to reflect the new MassDOT webpage design so frequent online customers and returning customers should not be alarmed at the change in design.  The existing RMV web link  at www.mass.gov/rmv will auto-forward directly to the new RMV home page.

The MBTA website at www.mbta.com and Regional Transit Authority website designs will not change.

As of October 31st, former Turnpike and MassHighway Department cameras have been merged into one online state Highway Division traffic camera page, www.mass.gov/511/cameras. Residents and commuters can view live traffic cameras throughout the highway system.

Comments

[Steven Crowell]

It's another year now... still no activity regarding enforcement of state or federal safety standards in taxi or police cruiser partition design and performance.

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[Steven W. Crowell]

Well, it is a new year, actually May already. I'm anxious to find out what enforcement action may be planned and when.
SWC

[Don'tclick]

Congratulations for this informing post. Best regards

[Seo Company India]

Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that.

[Steven W. Crowell]

I am delighted to be first to comment. My prior history with the RMV has been abjectly unsatisfactory. I am have high hopes for the future as spoken of by Jeffrey B. Mullan so recently.
In the mid 80's our Secretary of Public Safety's chief counsel wrote that he was not aware of a "definition" for seat belt and that removal of seat belts in taxis (in order to install an illegal partition) would not seem to run afoul of the law. Shortly after that letter - I met, at the RMV on Nashua St., with the RMV Chief Counsel - Jerry St. Hillaire, a legal cousel for the DPS, the head of RMV Inspections and my attorney - Mike Kraft, to address the problems arising from the use of illegal, uncertified, non-complying interior partitions commonly used in taxis, police cruisers, limousines and utility vans. The meeting was frustrating to say the least.
There is no doubt that illegal partitions have caused tremendous losses in injury death in collisions with each of those applications. In taxis - the injury and deaths attributable to faulty partition design include an additional category - assault.
I have been tracking these losses for four decades. Officers have perished in cruiser fires because, being unconscious due to post cranial partition impact, they remain in cruisers that catch fire in high speed rear end collisions. Some survive like Mass State Trooper Ellen Englehardt, currently confined to a wheelchair with little ability to communicate. Some officers (I have only found 'out of state' examples) have boasted about using the steel grid of the partition to mutilate the faces of prisoners by slamming the brake pedal needlessly. That is a cowardly viscious felony.
It is a violation of federal and state (for commercial vehicles) law to disregard federal standards as they relate to partition safety.
It is my desire to rectify the situation by inspiring a phase-in of compliance through the implementation of mandated procedures to discard illegal partitions (purchase cost must be refunded - by law) and replace them with the legal partitions I have designed, developed and field tested in
dozens of taxis and two state police cruisers.
I guess time will tell if the Mass DOT reads this blog, or cares to respond to it.

Thank you,

Steven Crowell
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MassDOT Responds: Thank you for following our blog and commenting on the new MassDOT. About the specific issue you first raised back in the 1980's, we are sending to the current RMV staff members for review. Thanks again.