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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

Bloomington Transit, Ind. U. Campus Bus discuss merger

GM Lew May told the city council during budget hearings that the agency and IU have had several meetings but are in disagreement on how the two systems would split revenues.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

N.Y. Sen. asks MTA to create tech campus route

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is asking for a route that connects the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island with tech hubs in Queens and Brooklyn to accommodate New York’s tech boom.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

Fort Collins, Colo. late-night bus service in demand

Paid for by the Colorado State University student government and Fort Collins police, the bus lines run only on Friday and Saturday nights after 11:30 p.m.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

UT Survey: Operators weigh in on paratransit programs

University officials based in Michigan, New Jersey, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Indiana discuss increasing ridership, contracting service and travel training.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

SEPTA achieves APTA's 'Gold' sustainability level

In addition to having the second largest hybrid-electric bus fleet in the U.S., SEPTA achieved a 19.7% reduction in water usage per passenger miles traveled (PMT); a 10.0% reduction in fuel use per PMT; a 4.0% reduction in electricity use per PMT; and 3.6% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per PMT.

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Newsby StaffAugust 3, 2012

Senate Finance Committee passes tax extender package

The proposed package, which would extend the transit commuter benefit to $240 per month and continue the alternative fuel tax credit, as well as a vehicle refueling property tax credit, would go into effect, retroactively, Jan. 1, 2012.

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Newsby StaffAugust 3, 2012

Sun Tran, Teamsters reach labor agreement

The new contract was ratified with a vote of 212 to 69.

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Newsby StaffAugust 2, 2012

Prisoners transported unsupervised on public transit

While a majority of the inmates are being transferred to halfway houses and are close to their release date, a smaller percentage are transferred on good faith to minimum security facilities.

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Newsby StaffAugust 2, 2012

Study: Commuters go to great lengths to avoid sitting by strangers

The greatest unspoken rule of bus travel is that if other seats are available you shouldn’t sit next to someone else. As the passengers in the study claimed, “It makes you look weird."

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Newsby StaffAugust 2, 2012

Mass. agency extends Veolia contract

The contract, which went into effect on July 1, 2012, is for one year with four one-year options.

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