OC Streetcar receives $125M federal funding boost
Funding identified in President Obama’s 2016-17 budget for 4.1-mile Santa Ana/Garden Grove project.
Funding identified in President Obama’s 2016-17 budget for 4.1-mile Santa Ana/Garden Grove project.
He has also served as the chief of operations planning for New York City Transit, which includes bus and subway operations.
The budget reflects an ambitious 30-year vision for the U.S. DOT to take the U.S. “Beyond Traffic,” toward a transportation network that matches the changing geography of where people live and work and fosters innovation and adapts to evolving technology.
The planned extension will be the first project to get a boost from the city's Transportation 2050 program, which raised sales taxes to fund bus, street and light-rail improvements.
No one was injured in the incident, but two Metro employees — a train operator and a rail operations controller — have been removed from duty pending the investigation.
The MBTA did not report any major issues Monday morning, with about 91% of commuter rail trains on-time during the morning commute, putting it about in line with a normal weekday.
The project includes adding a fourth track to nine miles of the Northeast Corridor surrounding BWI and reconfiguring the platforms to allow boarding from all four tracks.
Division 13 will serve as a bus maintenance, operations and service facility with a multi-level parking garage that accommodates 200 CNG buses, fueling equipment, transportation offices and support areas.
Both are statutory requirements first authorized by Congress in MAP-21 Act in 2012 and reauthorized in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act in 2015.
Will be the first rail system in the U.S. to use the technology, which will make boarding and disembarking the trains easy and convenient for all riders.
8-Ride is a campus van service provided by MV Transportation in which students can call for a ride to a destination within the outlined boundaries.
Proposal calls for a $10-per-barrel fee on oil production to fund public transit annually, with another $10 billion going toward new federal funding streams for cities and states that cut carbon emissions from their transportation sectors
The announcement comes after officials voted in favor of hiring a private company to provide paratransit service last November.
VTA's mobile ticketing app, EventTIK, enabled Super Bowl goers to purchase their fare in advance to make riding public transit easy and convenient.
The project generates important economic benefits for Québec: more than 150 Canadian suppliers, including over a hundred long-standing Québec companies, participate in the project, whose Canadian content exceeds 60%.
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