Terry Garcia Crews was previously president/GM for Star Tran Inc., providing services to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Austin, Texas, responsible for almost 400 fixed-route and paratransit vehicles, a $98 million budget and a workforce of 1,000.
Transit providers, including state and local governments and transit agencies, apply for these annual funds in the form of federal grants for infrastructure projects, such as the construction or repair of transit buildings — including bus and rail stations and track repair — or the purchase, rebuilding or refurbishing of transit vehicles.
Project managers from eastern China's planned Tianjin-Qinhuangdao high-speed railway failed to submit to required environmental inspections after they made location changes, according to China's Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Mobility Transit to take over Augusta Public Transit, which has been struggling with budget problems.
The worldwide app, for iPhone or Android phones, allows users to buy tickets, get info on tours and stops, as well as email photos taken during the tour.
The first car is expected to be delivered in September 2012 with revenue service beginning in early 2013. These will be the first streetcars in Atlanta since 1949 and will mark Siemens entry into the streetcar market in the U.S.
A transit planning committee endorsed a bus and rail plan to be financed in part by a half-cent sales tax increase in Durham and Orange counties. However, voters already face separate proposals for a quarter-cent increase in their sales tax.
The train route between Rabat and Salé will run on a network of two lines that connect 31 stations and extend over a total of 12 miles. The fleet is made up of 19 double tramsets and six single bi-directional tramsets, which are scheduled to come into service in summer 2011.