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FRA Announces $5.3B in Rail Investments, Including $2B for Amtrak
Funding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHFunding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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Promoted Mike Bismeyer to Transit Sales Manager and added experienced corporate sales executive, Kris Wylie, to its transit division. Bismeyer has been a transit sales executive with Seon for the past four years. Wylie specializes in mobile surveillance and fleet management solutions for the transit market, and works closely with Seon’s sales, marketing, and service teams.
Read More →City officials are considering alternate funding for a rail line along the Beltline and other projects after the failure of a transit referendum over the summer.
Read More →North County Transit District Coaster commuter trains will go without the service while officials explore possible improvements.
Read More →In the four months following a large fare hike and a change in offerings, the agency sold 353,798 passes — down from 628,648 in same period in 2011.
Read More →The Valley Transportation Authority rail line suffers from low ridership and high operating costs, with less than 1% of area residents riding it daily.
Read More →Extends pre-tax benefits for transit commuters, meaning a $550 and up a year in tax savings per commuter, retroactive to 2012.
Read More →Boasts a consistent on-time performance of better than 97%, a customer satisfaction rating of 93% and annual ridership of about 84 million. In 1983 system-wide on-time performance was hovering at 80.5% and annual ridership was 42 million and dropping.
Read More →Abellio Rail NRW GmbH will operate the trains on the Saale-Thuringia-South Harz network in Germany. The order is valued at approximately $ 226 million.
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For the men and women who run the MTA’s vast network of subways and buses, Superstorm Sandy was a trial, not by fire, but by wind and water.
Read More →About 45% of respondents commute to the city’s downtown area, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership. Results also indicated that downtown Denver commuters use transit more and drive alone less than commuters in the U.S. as a whole.
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