3rd Metro-North Station Now Fully Accessible
The station joins two others on the Harlem Line, Hartsdale, and Scarsdale, to have accessibility upgrades completed in 2024.
The station joins two others on the Harlem Line, Hartsdale, and Scarsdale, to have accessibility upgrades completed in 2024.
The agency and supplier successfully launched phase one of SEPTA OnDemand within an unprecedented 4.5 month timeframe.
Transit agencies are continuing to invest in upgrading their paratransit services. The results are showing, but what does the future of paratransit look like?
The young representatives will work with all 30 TfL Youth Panel members to review papers in advance of the meetings and formulate questions and suggestions they wish to put to TfL leaders and panel members.
The acquisition of the new, all-electric bus was made possible through funding from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust.
The $4.5 billion capital and operating budget proposal provides a worst-case scenario; however, WMATA’s funding partners are currently working through legislation that may reduce some of the most detrimental fare and service changes proposed.
Cordes & Company, in its capacity as receiver of Lightning eMotors, entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement to sell substantially all of the assets of the company for $12.6 million in cash, subject to adjustment.
NaviLens is wayfinding and information technology that helps blind and low-vision riders navigate to a bus stop, access real-time next bus arrival information, and receive directions to the bus when it arrives at the bus stop.
The portal now includes a combined look at rail and bus ridership, adds no-tap rail ridership to the rail dashboard to track the effectiveness of anti-fare evasion efforts, and provides a more complete picture of total ridership.
Federal funding has been important in enabling the MTA to advance ADA upgrade projects.
METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman, Mark Ellison, VP, Sales and Marketing, for InterMotive Vehicles Controls, and George Hadley, Production Manager at PRIDE Industries, discuss a one-of-a-kind partnership.
In a letter, APTA President/CEO said “At a minimum, we urge the THUD Appropriations Act, together with advance appropriations of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to provide $21.1 billion for public transit and $16.7 billion for passenger rail, as passed by the Senate..."
To sweeten the deal even more, the board also recently approved pay increases for these essential positions, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
The $2.6 billion combined operating budgets for both conventional and Wheel-Trans paratransit services and represents a 7.5% increase over the approved 2023 budget.
Bus stop enhancements include wider sidewalks, wheelchair ramps, larger bus pads, and tactile paving, which assists pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired.
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