Calgary Transit, Police launch bait car program to deter theft
When a bait car is stolen, the location, speed and direction of travel of the vehicle is monitored by police dispatchers at Public Safety Communications through GPS tracking.
When a bait car is stolen, the location, speed and direction of travel of the vehicle is monitored by police dispatchers at Public Safety Communications through GPS tracking.
The NextBus contract outfits Amador Transit’s entire fleet with NextBus GPS location devices and real-time bus arrival information. NextBus will also install roadside LED digital bus stop displays and a large LCD transit center sign.
The 24 Nova LFS buses will be assembled in the company's upstate New York plant and delivered in late 2010.
The 600-plus public transit leaders will spend Tuesday and Wednesday visiting their congressional representatives, lobbying their transit initiatives on Capitol Hill.
Residents along part of the planned route claim they were never told of the plan to pave over a greenbelt in front of their homes, putting buses within 11 feet of their homes every 10 minutes.
The March service cuts eliminate about 8 percent of the county's bus service.
Riders will be able to access the center by phone or Internet to make or alter travel plans, track the vehicles in which they’ll be riding utilizing GPS technology, and receive information on health and human services and general governmental and educational information.
Initially, the featured national parks include Glacier, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Everglades, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Rocky Mountain and 50 others located along the Northeast Corridor and in the nation’s capital. These parks were selected due to their proximity to an Amtrak route. There are plans to add more national parks to the site.
The ATM contract will generate a total of at least $1.3 million over the next five years, and increases the number of ATM locations on CTA property from 77 to 97.
More than half a dozen intercity bus companies are waging a price and service war by offering special promotions and amenities to compete for riders aiming to travel to or from New York City.
Muni drivers are the second highest-paid transit operators in the nation. The initiative aims at eliminating a trust fund for the operators and making benefits and salaries a part of contract negotiations.
Twenty-seven specialized ART programs represent more than $200 million in premium in 2009 -- making up more than one-half of the company's gross written premiums.
During its 125-year history, PB has participated in the development of the first mass transit systems for New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta, Taipei and Singapore; the advancement of immersed-tube tunnel technology; and various innovations in the design and construction of bridges.
NYCT and MTA Bus boast a fleet of 1,679 hybrid buses, including a total of 1,675 diesel-electric hybrid transit buses from Daimler Buses - comprising more than 99 percent of its hybrid fleet.
The accident, which occurred in New York in 2005, killed four people.
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