Chicago Transit approves $1.39B budget for 2013
The plan maintains current service levels, freezes base fares, and continues investment to modernize and repair infrastructure to best serve customers.
The plan maintains current service levels, freezes base fares, and continues investment to modernize and repair infrastructure to best serve customers.
The 81-passenger double-deckers will continue to feature free WI-FI, as well as power outlets and DVD video capabilities, panoramic views, two tables, reclining seats, a restroom, safety belts and mobility impaired accessibility.
In early 2013, Amtrak will issue a Request for Information to formally start the process that will replace the existing 20 Acela Express train sets and add additional train sets to expand seating capacity and provide for more frequent high-speed service on the NEC.
The decisions will make the corridor eligible for new trains, improved frequencies, help improve on-time performance and ultimately reduce travel time to less than four hours.
The rail vehicles will be used on the TEX Rail commuter line between southwest Fort Worth and DFW Airport.
Thomas Prendergast, the president of MTA New York City Transit, which operates the MTA’s subway and bus systems, will serve as interim executive director of the MTA when Lhota’s resignation takes effect.
The Davis County Commission agreed to put $7,500 toward the South Davis County Alternatives Analysis. The study will look at creating a regional public transit plan between Davis and Salt Lake City.
The course, scheduled for February 5 and 6 in Ashburn, Va., will examine core principles for managing the transition from first response and life safety operations to the decedent recovery and identification process.
The funding agreement seals the federal commitment to the project — a 20-mile rail line with 21 rail stations.
In fulfilling the contract, Stertil-Koni ‘s distributor serving the eastern region of Canada, Novaquip, delivered seven sets of the Stertil-Koni EARHTLIFT (consisting of six mobile columns per set) and nine in-ground piston lifts.
Richland, Wash.-based Ben Franklin Transit was awarded a CALSTART grant to work with company to develop an all-electric remanufactured transit bus that has the capability of going more than 100 miles.
The T had previously planned to start with TRE vehicles due to their significantly lower purchase price and less lead time to procure to meet its 2016 schedule, with a long-range plan to move to DMUs in the future.
David Nichols brings 33 years of Amtrak experience to this CTO position, having joined the company in 1979 as a block operator and most recently served as senior director, operating practices.
The university planning board okays a proposed Arts and Transit neighborhood plan that will include a new train station, the renovation of the existing rail station and infrastructure improvements.
The Golden Valley City Council approved the plan, which calls for a fourth light rail line to run from Minneapolis to Brooklyn Park.
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