By partnering with the State Health Department, the City County Health Department, Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust and other healthcare providers, employees and riders can gain access to free tools to help quit tobacco.
Company will manage maintenance, operations and dispatch of the five-route system for the Link System Public Transit Committee.
The addition of the equipment has helped the agency expand its offerings; however, overcrowding was still an issue on Monday. The agency is still looking into more equipment-leasing options.
The startup was apparently being torn apart by mismanagement and growing tensions between leaders, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on July 12.
The two trains were on a single-track line at the time of the crash, between the coastal towns of Bari and Barletta.
Planners estimate the new, 11-mile Tysons Corner to Alexandria bus system would attract about 8,600 new transit riders per day.
The five-year contract is with The Comet, formerly known as the Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority.
The measure would only allow the subsidy to apply to alternative options while Metro undergoes its massive maintenance plan, known as SafeTrack, which began last month and is scheduled to end in March.