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Newsby StaffJuly 1, 2010

Study: Nearly $120M in transit earmarks unspent

More than 150 earmarks in 2006 and 2007, allocated under SAFETEA-LU, would have funded public transit projects in several communities across the U.S. had they been spent by Sept. 30, 2009.

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Newsby StaffJuly 1, 2010

NYCT restricts Access services based on weather

Reservations only accepted when forecast predicts temperatures reach 90 or above during the summer months and 39 or below during the winter.

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Newsby StaffJune 30, 2010

Committee passes Public Transportation Safety Act

Bipartisan bill will improve transit safety oversight and establish national safety standards for transit systems across the country.

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Newsby StaffJune 28, 2010

LYNX taps Trapeze for operations, paratransit capabilities

The operations management system for LYNX includes functionality that enables employee sign ups, dispatching of daily activities, timekeeping, yard management and workforce management.

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Newsby StaffJune 25, 2010

Michigan's TheRide readies 30-year plan

Meetings will be held throughout Washtenaw County during all stages of the planning process.

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Newsby StaffJune 24, 2010

First Transit wins N.C. contract renewal

Will continue to provide complete operations and transit management services as well as comprehensive preventive maintenance and inspection programs to meet customer transportation and budgetary needs.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2010

Experts call for senior-friendly transit options in Canada

"Grocery bus" model and implementing a personal transportation account that would be drawn from for use of a door-to-door service are some program ideas.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2010

Azure Dynamics to supply hybrid-electric buses to King County paratransit fleet

StarTrans Bus provided the 22-foot shuttle bus bodies with a capacity of up to 12 seated passengers plus two wheelchair positions.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2010

Trapeze to equip Sun Metro paratransit service

Will provide a Web-enabled, browser-based demand response scheduling and dispatch system that includes an advanced scheduling and run-cutting solution to help automate time consuming tasks and create efficiencies in the major stages of the scheduling process.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2010

Web Extra: TransLink rider helps improve access

Rob Sleath, who is blind, has helped TransLink improve its service for disabled passengers over the past 10 years through his involvement in the agency's Access Transit Secretariat and its Users' Advisory Committee. He showed bus drivers were only announcing stops 6 percent of the time and urged the agency to make a change.

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