Visalia, Calif.-based Classic Charter’s new coach is equipped with a Detroit Diesel engine and Allison transmission, and features 110-volt outlets and a state-of-the-art entertainment system with 15-inch video monitors.
Responsible for overall design, integration and installation of the new surveillance system, which includes remotely controlled cameras that can focus on rail station platforms, equipment and surrounding areas.
Others present included Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood; Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan; Agriculture Secretary Kenneth Vilsack, and former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
Includes railcar and locomotive restoration to augment the current fleet; projects to bring stations into ADA compliance; facility improvements; and track, bridge and signal replacements and upgrades.
FMCSA regulations require that operators communicate instructions on what to do in emergency situations to bus riders prior to any coach departure.
Although neither of the victims were a part of the ATU, the union also joined in the effort to raise money for the families.
Operation demonstrated exceptional achievement in the areas of safety, operations, customer service, financial management, community relations, policy and administration.
Issues include ensuring adequate funding for public transit; making communities, infrastructure and transportation services more commuter friendly and more accessible; and helping persons with disabilities with transportation costs, and making transportation services more affordable.
Supports transit system's goal of recovering 52 percent of annual operational costs by 2017.
Projects target improved passenger and maintenance facilities, safety and security, information technology, operations and equipment.
IBM seeks share of high-speed rail. Seattle transit debuts talking buses. MBTA proposes rail hikes, service cuts.
Actions were required to implement the balanced budget passed by the agency's Board in December, which closed an approximately $1.2 billion deficit.
Agency will use funding to purchase: 10 new 30-foot gasoline-electric hybrid buses for use on neighborhood Mini Blue lines; three 60-foot flexible articulated buses that will be added to the busy Rapid 3 and Rapid 7 lines; and up to three 40-foot alternative fueled buses (manufactured by ElDorado National) that will replace several of the agency’s older diesel models.
Two employees were pronounced dead at the scene, and a third employee was placed on life support and died at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.
Advanced battery technology comprises the use of lightweight, non-corroding and non-sulfating microcell foam plates to replace the heavy non-conductive lead metal plates typical of traditional lead acid batteries.
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