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METRO's Innovative Solutions Award winner replaces complex service-area descriptions with an accessible, interactive map that puts paratransit information directly in customers’ hands.
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There will be no service cuts for the first time in three years.
Read More →President William A. Millar said that the funding reductions made to public transportation and high-speed rail are troublesome, since these investments are catalysts to create jobs, and untimely, due to the recent sharp rise in gas prices.
Read More →President William Millar told the House of Representatives that transit reductions of 30 percent or more outlined in the FY 2012 budget proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) would halt thousands projects needed in the years ahead. He added that while transportation programs account for less than 3 percent of the federal budget, they support or create more than 2.5 million jobs annually.
Read More →The new national competition will showcase innovative ways that local communities use smart transportation technology to improve safety, mobility and the environment. Submissions are being sought through June 30 from state and local governments, transit agencies, private firms and students.
Read More →Funding comes from a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, which includes $3.6 billion to improve public transit in California.
Read More →Ontario, Canada’s Liberal provincial government voted to make transit an essential, uninterruptible service and rushed the bill through the legislature to ensure it was in place before the current contract with the city and the ATU expired.
Read More →President William A. Millar called on Congressional leaders to pass a well-funded six-year multimodal surface transportation bill, and eliminate burdensome requirements and approval processes in the New Starts program.
Read More →Provides transit managers immediate access to error reports, such as camera video-loss events or failed DVR recordings, when logged into the system. Reports now also provide an evaluation and time stamp of which vehicles encounter technical or power errors.
Read More →As a result of the economic recession and failure of Proposition 1, the Board of Commissioners directed staff to implement a 35 percent reduction in service by October 2011 to address the agency's budget shortfall.
Read More →The half-cent sales tax, collected over the past two decades, provided $1 billion for Metrolink service and senior and disabled bus fare stabilization. On April 1, the first half-cent of what is estimated to be $15 billion over the next 30 years will be collected for Measure M2.
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