Passenger Bus, Rail and Motorcoach Industry News

The two covered bus stops cost between $80,000 and $90,000 each.

Currently, only some of the bus stops in London feature screens listing the number of minutes until a bus arrives. TfL said the live bus departures service would be fully launched this fall.

Public works officials have accused Norman Bench of failing to disclose how much money it had collected from its ads. The city had the option of sharing in that revenue but failed to ask Norman Bench for its financial information until February 2010, which appalled several council members

As part of the campaign, posts at selected bus stops are crowned with a solar panel that charges a battery that powers the light-emitting diode, or LED, fixtures.

The Lakeland Area Mass Transit District may close 500 of its 1,000 stops because it is too costly to make the stops ADA compliant. Waits on certain routes will increase from 30 minutes to an hour.

Avego originally provided the SMS and Web departure board services as part of a three-month Futurefleet pilot in 2010.

Agency installs its solar powered bus shelters where the shelter may lie outside the municipal electric power grid, and because the connection and electric usage costs are prohibitive.