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Newsby StaffMarch 28, 2016

Honolulu's HART receives first two railcars

Over the next several weeks, crews will be pouring the cars, making sure they work like they are supposed to. The detailing and eventual guideway testing will all take place at HART's operations center in Waipahu.

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Newsby StaffMarch 28, 2016

APTA: Public transportation users save $9,234 annually

The savings are based on the cost of commuting by public transportation compared to the cost of owning and driving a vehicle, which includes the March 23, 2016 average national gas price and the national unreserved monthly parking rate numbers.  

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Newsby StaffMarch 24, 2016

Metra adds $65.4M to 2016 Capital Program

The revised program now totals $251 million in projected spending. Metra will receive an $11.3 million increase in federal funds due to the recently passed Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.

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Newsby StaffMarch 24, 2016

INIT to supply Honolulu bus, rail smart card system

Will provide new smart card readers on TheBus and ticket vending machines and fare gates at the rail stations. The contract also calls for customer service terminals at satellite city halls and retail outlets to sell passes and load value onto the cards.

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Newsby StaffMarch 23, 2016

L.A. Metro's Washington unveils $120B plan to transform transportation

The potential ballot measure would ask voters to increase the countywide sales tax by a half-cent for 40 years and to continue an existing tax (Measure R) for an extra 18 years, meaning both would potentially run through 2057.

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Newsby StaffMarch 23, 2016

OKC awards Brookville Equipment $24.9M streetcar contract

This is the city's second dance with a streetcar manufacturer after the original preferred builder, INEKON Group a.s. of the Czech Republic, missed a deadline to submit financial guarantees.

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Newsby StaffMarch 23, 2016

TSA enhancing security at airports, rail stations following Belgian attacks

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TSA, announced the enhanced measures Tuesday, despite there being "no specific, credible intelligence of any plot to conduct similar attacks in the U.S.

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Newsby StaffMarch 22, 2016

APTF scholarship named after APTA Chair Valarie J. McCall

Will be awarded for the first time in 2016 to a deserving applicant who is pursuing studies in urban transportation planning or public administration with a focus on transportation.

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Newsby StaffMarch 22, 2016

Suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport, metro train kill at least 30

The coordinated assault triggered security alerts across Europe and drew global expressions of support, four days after Brussels police had captured the prime surviving suspect in Islamic State's attacks on Paris last November, according to the report.

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Newsby StaffMarch 22, 2016

BART restores partial service on down line, issue still not found

Engineers and outside experts continued Monday to search for the issues that are causing train-damaging power spikes on the rails between the stations, but came up empty.

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