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Ridership increased an average of 71% compared with the same period a year earlier during the fare-free pilot.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHRidership increased an average of 71% compared with the same period a year earlier during the fare-free pilot.
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In this video, Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver gives an overview of the intriguing finds unearthed so far, as the Liverpool Street excavation reaches the levels of Roman London.
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The New Tube will be introduced first on the Piccadilly line, followed by the Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo City lines. Its innovative design will also allow for air-cooling for the first time on deep-level sections of the Tube.
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Bombardier’s scope of supply includes 36 INNOVIA APM 256 vehicles, the CITYFLO 650 Communications-Based Train Control system for driverless operation, as well as on-board communications.
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Delivery of the three new train sets for the Lausanne Metro is scheduled for the second quarter of 2017 with entry into service planned for the last quarter of the same year. As well as being an automatic, ultra-modern metro, the m2 is also a feat of engineering, being the world’s only rubber-tired metro capable of operating on a slope with a gradient of 12%.
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FTA Acting Administrator Therese McMillan highlighted a few programs that have been created to help fill the needs of the industry, including the FTA’s Ladders of Opportunity initiative, which made available $100 million in grants for transit agencies to modernize and expand transit bus service specifically for the purpose of connecting disadvantaged and low-income individuals, veterans, seniors, youths, and others with local workforce training, employment centers, healthcare and other vital services.
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Dorval Carter Jr., who will become the first African-American CTA president, most recently served as Acting Chief of Staff to USDOT Secretary Anthony Foxx. He replaces Forrest Claypool, who is joining as chief of staff for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's second administration
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One of the proposed federal bills, H.R. 1846, would index the gas tax to inflation and create a bi-partisan, bi-cameral transportation commission that would provide long-term funding of the Highway Trust Fund. Another proposed bill, H.R. 680, would increase the gas tax by five cents per year for three years.
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The Temsa TS 35 coach is a fully integral mid-sized coach that offers a luxurious and spacious interior for passengers and driver. Construction from stainless steel ensures extra durability and safety.
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Key findings of the report found that nearly two-thirds of BART's railcar fleet will be at least 25 years old by fiscal year 2016-17, with the majority being 40 years old, and the agency faces cash-flow challenges for projects, with its total capital needs projected to cost more than $9.6 billion between fiscal years 2014-15 and 2023-24.
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Believes the failure of federal and state agencies to enact a comprehensive national and uniform inspection structure in all 50 states, is not a failure of regulation but a failure of prioritization and enforcement.
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