The service is designed to reach residents who don't qualify for Grand Valley Transit's paratransit service but aren't able to utilize its fixed-route service.
Fredericton, New Brunswick's Dial-A-Bus service routinely turns away passengers due to high demand, so city officials have hired a consultant to create a five-year plan.
Island-based transit agency provides year-round public transit service to six towns: Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury.
The certificate is awarded to government units and public employee retirement systems whose CAFRs achieve the highest standards in government accounting and financial reporting.
Rob Sleath, who is blind, has helped TransLink improve its service for disabled passengers over the past 10 years through his involvement in the agency's Access Transit Secretariat and its Users' Advisory Committee. He showed bus drivers were only announcing stops 6 percent of the time and urged the agency to make a change.
Group will guide the FTA’s safety rulemaking agenda if the final legislation is passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.
"Grocery bus" model and implementing a personal transportation account that would be drawn from for use of a door-to-door service are some program ideas.