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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

U. of Maryland students to lose free bus route

Department of Transportation Services will stop running a bus from the University of Maryland campus to Prince George’s Plaza and University Town Center except for Saturdays. Town Center managers will no longer pay for the service, which costs $87,900 annually.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

Fla. Gulf Coast U. to offer car sharing

The school has partnered with WeCar by the car rental agency Enterprise, to offer two cars to be rented by the hour or day.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

Southern Ill. U. to cut link to local college

The route cost SIU about $100,000 annually and John A. Logan College about $18,000. Neither could justify that funding for the number of people using the route.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

FTA awards $787M in grants

FTA received 836 project applications totaling $4 billion in requests. In FY2010 and FY2011, FTA awarded a total of more than $1.8 billion in grants for hundreds of state of good repair projects, primarily involving buses and bus facilities.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

N.Y. Public Transit group to hold 'Great Ideas' conference

Held Sept. 19-20 at The Saratoga Hilton and City Center, the event includes nationally recognized speakers, the state’s only transit industry trade show, and a film festival.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

Union workers vow to strike during Olympic Games

Workers from passport inspectors to train drivers would strike or cut their hours over issues ranging from pension-plan contributions to bonuses for extra work during the Games.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2012

Ioxus to supply ultracapacitors to EMD

Ultracapacitors can handle more than one million charge and discharge cycles and offer a longer lifespan than batteries, according to the company.

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Newsby StaffJuly 20, 2012

N.Y. MTA, LIRR enhance services

Adding and extending service on almost 40 bus, subway and commuter rail lines. The investments will be phased in over several months and will cost an additional $29 million per year to operate when fully implemented. They are paid for with increased revenue generated by additional ridership and savings from the agency’s efforts to contain costs.

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Newsby StaffJuly 19, 2012

Nashville transit sets ridership record

The Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority and Regional Transportation Authority of Middle Tennessee jointly recorded more than 10 million passenger trips in the last fiscal year, almost 1.3 million more trips than the previous year.

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Newsby StaffJuly 19, 2012

N.Y. MTA allowing ads on MetroCards

To make the program more attractive, the MTA is opening up space on the fronts of the iconic cards for the first time, and is reducing advertising rates.

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