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Newsby StaffNovember 12, 2019

U.S. DOT awards $900M in BUILD grant funding

For this round of BUILD grants, the maximum grant award is $25 million, and no more than $90 million can be awarded to a single state.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 12, 2019

Maintenance Directors Tap Training and Data to Drive Success

TriMet's Ed Bennett and Votran's Rick Kazawitch took home this years Maintenance Director of the Year Awards at BusCon 2019 in Indianapolis.

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Newsby StaffNovember 11, 2019

Amtrak cites customer satisfaction, safety as factors for record ridership

This year, the agency became the first major U.S.-based railroad to implement a Safety Management System, a proactive approach to managing safety, resulting in significant improvement.

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Newsby StaffNovember 11, 2019

Smaller vehicles showing sales growth in latest ABA Foundation report

The 30- to 40-foot motorcoach sales grew 68% over the same quarter last year going from 19 in 2018 to 32 units sold in 2019.

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Newsby StaffNovember 11, 2019

PSTA's Lyft partnership hits 10K rides milestone

The service is tailored for those who because of their disability, are unable to independently use the regular, accessible PSTA buses.

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Newsby StaffNovember 11, 2019

Milwaukee County Transit boasts highest-rated transit, ticketing app

The app was developed in partnership with Tixora, a Wisconsin-based start-up company that has worked with MCTS since 2016.

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ArticlesNovember 11, 2019

Q&A with MBTA's Chief Customer Officer Danny Levy

Prior to joining the MBTA last year, Levy served as chief marking officer for the Massachusetts Port Authority, where she headed up a 10-person department at the $800 million agency.

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Newsby StaffNovember 8, 2019

N.Y.'s MTA joins UN agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The agency is only the second government entity in the U.S. to commit to a science-based target to drive down greenhouse gas emissions.

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Newsby StaffNovember 8, 2019

REI products address Calif.'s charter-party carrier regulation

The law stipulates carriers must have interior lighting fixtures that illuminate automatically in the event of a collision, rollover or impact by another vehicle or object.

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Newsby StaffNovember 6, 2019

Voters continue support for public transportation funding

Houston Metro and Cincinnati lead the trend with overwhelming success for ballot measures supporting growth and infrastructure.

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