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Newsby StaffDecember 18, 2012

San Antonio VIA opens BRT service

The new service features eight stops along a 20-mile corridor that takes riders to the area’s largest employment centers at the newly opened South Texas Medical Center Transit Center and in downtown San Antonio.

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Newsby StaffDecember 18, 2012

Veolia, Nevada’s RTC celebrate 20 years

Veolia has operated fixed route service under contract to the RTC without interruption since 1992 when the transit system inaugurated new service. Thirty-two employees who started with the company in 1992 are still with Veolia in Las Vegas.

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Newsby StaffDecember 18, 2012

San Diego MTS to buy Gilligs, New Flyers

Signed contracts for up to 350 Gillig 40-foot low-floor CNG buses and up to 165 New Flyer 60-foot low-floor articulated CNG buses through 2017. The total value of the contracts, if all options are exercised and future funding is available, is in excess of $343 million, inclusive of sales tax, licenses, fees and delivery.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

B.C. students to vote on U-Pass price hikes

The monthly universal transit pass fee for students will increase from $30 to $35 next May and rise to $38 by the summer of 2016.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

U. of Tenn. adds Zipcar service

Will begin early next year. The service will initially consist of four cars.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

Texas A&M launches bike lease program

Borrow-a-Bike allows students and faculty to lease a bike for a short period of time. MaroonBikes, a local bike shop, provides the bikes to the university for free.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

Minn. students speak in favor of high-speed rail

Students from University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Minnesota Duluth and Macalester College held a rolling press conference in support of the proposed Northern Lights Express project. Preliminary engineering is set to start in early 2013.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

U. of Montana to add clean-burning bus

The university’s transit service has seen its ridership grow from less than 4,000 passengers in 2000 to 450,000 this year.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

U. of Miss. may get extended bus service

The Oxford-University Transit Commission is looking into extending service from 6:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. on all routes, in response to a survey of University of Mississippi students.

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Newsby StaffDecember 17, 2012

Webasto, ESW Group to partner

Will help fleets attain funding for emission and idle reduction equipment.

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