The U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management and local partner communities will receive the funds for projects ranging from redesigning and widening the Nauset Bicycle Trail at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts to purchasing new buses to transport visitors between Sausalito and the Muir Woods National Monument in California.
December 2011 marked the eighth month in a row of increased ridership throughout the RTA system.
The University of British Columbia is changing to a monthly U-Pass system, which will prevent students who have dropped out of courses from keeping their subsidized transit passes.
Central Ohio Transit Authority installed a new ID reader system on its buses to assess student ridership for future planning, requiring students to get replacement IDs.
Greater Lynchburg Transit Co. is responding to the university’s concerns over possibly getting shortchanged on its share of federal and state subsidies provided to the agency. Both sides agreed to work on a simpler approach to determine costs.