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News•by Staff•August 31, 2015

National Express takes over operation of Merced's The BUS

The Bus offers fixed-route and paratransit services to the communities of The Joint Powers Authority of Merced County’s seven member agencies, including the Cities of Atwater, Dos Palos, Gustine, Livingston, Los Banos, and Merced, and the County of Merced.

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News•by Staff•August 31, 2015

Shared-Use Mobility Center partners with Zipcar for 'Trade Ally' program

The program will provide private sector operators and innovators with an opportunity to support SUMC's work, which focuses on bringing together a wide range of interests — including government, industry, non-governmental organizations and academics — to help guide the development of the shared mobility industry.

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News•by Staff•August 27, 2015

L.A. gives final approval for Uber, Lyft pick ups at LAX

The council agreed to explore a possible city ordinance to require ride-hailing driver background checks to include fingerprint-based screening.

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News•by Staff•August 27, 2015

U.S. commuters waste 7 billion hours sitting in traffic, report says

Washington, D.C. tops the list of gridlock-plagued cities, with 82 hours of delay per commuter, followed by Los Angeles (80 hours), San Francisco (78 hours), New York (74 hours) and San Jose, Calif. (67 hours).

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News•by Staff•August 25, 2015

Clean Energy to build CNG stations for multiple agencies, school district

Will construct new CNG stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Va.; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, N.Y.; and North Kansas City (Mo.) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the U.S. to transition its school bus fleet to CNG.

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News•by Staff•August 24, 2015

D.C. advocates call on Uber, Lyft to add wheelchair accessible vehicles

For months, Uber has been seeking agreements with a handful of D.C. cab companies to access the companies’ wheelchair-ready vans for use on the Uber Taxi platform. The cab companies, however, are not interested in working with Uber.

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News•by Staff•August 24, 2015

Ford files patent for autonomous car with reconfigurable seating

According to the patent, the design calls for an automobile capable of operating without the input of a driver and is equipped with seats capable of changing its layout.

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News•by Staff•August 24, 2015

Ariz.'s Sun Tran labor strike hits historic mark

Management is working with a federal mediator to schedule a meeting with the union, while only eight routes are operating and the agency offered no weekend service.The strike began August 6, which makes it the longest strike in recent history.

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News•by Staff•August 24, 2015

Lane Transit to interview 3 finalists vying for GM post

Ron Kilcoyne, whose last day is Sept. 30, announced his retirement after four years at the helm of LTD, stepping away from a 30-plus-year career in public transportation.

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News•by Staff•August 21, 2015

Calif. transit agencies say fed grants blocked over pension reform law

The agencies thought they had won a federal court victory late last year, when a judge ruled that the state law did not violate a federal prohibition against interfering with public employees' collective bargaining rights, but the Labor Department is still enforcing the rule.

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