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Wabtec acquires brake system manufacturer

Tec Tran, which has annual sales of about $10 million, designs and manufactures hydraulic braking systems and related components. The company’s customers include global transit car builders and many North American transit agencies.

TriMet wins union contract dispute

The agency’s Last Best Offer takes effect as the union contract. The new contract is retroactive to when the previous contract with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 757 expired, November 30, 2009. The new contract expires November 30, 2012.

NJ Transit cracks down on ticket fraud

More than 200 arrests related to counterfeit activity have been made in the past two years. Agency train crews began using UV scanners to inspect weekly and monthly passes, which now contain an anti-counterfeit measure that can only be detected with these special UV scanners.

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