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Our team of enterprising editors bring years of experience covering the fleet industry. We offer a deep understanding of trends and the ever-evolving landscapes we cover in fleet, trucking, and transportation.  

Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

Frozen switches causing delays on MBTA rail

Crews across the area are working to fix the problems.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

Hill International taps new president/CEO

David L. Richter, who is both an attorney and a civil engineer, has worked at Hill for 20 years and is the second CEO in the company's history. Prior to his new position, Richter had been president/COO of the company since 2004.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

New York bus crash injures 21

Police say that shortly before 4 p.m. the driver of a Nissan Altima was backing out of a parking lot near an intersection when it was struck by the driver of a BMW sedan heading southbound on Utica. The sedan was thrust into the path of a northbound MTA bus and struck the driver's side.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

D.C. Metro expected to appoint Jack Requa interim GM

Requa, who has been Metro's assistant GM, bus services since 2010, has held the job on an interim basis before in 2006 when interim GM Dan Tangherlini left to become D.C. city administrator in the Adrian Fenty administration.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

NJ TRANSIT expands 'Quiet Commute' program

The designated car will be the first car on northbound trains traveling towards Philadelphia, and the last car on southbound trains traveling towards Atlantic City, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

Artist draws San Francisco public transportation riders

Hamilton Cline says he likes using subject on their phones because they are less likely to look up and around while he draws them. 

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2015

NTSB Safety Alert highlights improving rail visibility

On railroads, LED railroad signals may mask nearby incandescent signals, preventing incandescent signals from being visible to train crews. If LED and incandescent signals are installed in close proximity to one another, the LED signal may appear brighter or closer, causing crews to confuse the sequence of the signals as they approach.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2015

Calif. high-speed rail project breaks ground

Marking significant progress toward modernizing California’s transportation infrastructure, the California High-Speed Rail Authority joined hundreds of supporters and government, student, community, transportation, business and labor leaders on Tuesday to break ground on the nation’s first high-speed rail system.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2015

Hill tapped to manage Seattle East Link extension project

Phase I of the contract for pre-construction phase services is for approximately $1 million over a one-year period. Phase II of the contract for construction phase services, if exercised by Sound Transit, is anticipated to have an estimated value to Hill of approximately $21 million over a subsequent four-year period, for a total contract value of approximately $22 million.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2015

Amtrak's new NEC site highlights infrastructure projects

The new website includes project information and updates, maps, graphics and other resources about several NEC infrastructure projects now under construction or in the planning stage.

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