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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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Three out of four agencies responding to the annual survey reported that their ridership numbers were down due to the economy and some were additionally impacted by raising their fares. The average transit executive salary totals $157,000, while the average time spent in the industry tops 25 years.
Read More →Following a project to equip more than 1,000 buses with GPS technology in 2009, dispatchers in the MBTA's Bus Operations Control Center were able for the first time to pinpoint the location of every MBTA bus in real-time. As of today, that same information is available to T bus riders, regardless of route.
Read More →The $308M contract includes an option for 16 additional metro cars. The new trains will be equipped with Automatic Train Protection and Automatic Train Operation features. The first deliveries are planned for the end of 2012.
Read More →The city recently suspended a policy banning firearms in advertisements on public transportation. The poster promotes the 25th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Burlingame, south of San Francisco.
Read More →In a letter hand-delivered to Metro's newly appointed leadership, Board Chairman Gilbert Garcias and Acting President/CEO George Greanias, Rogoff wrote, "The results of the investigation are both alarming and disturbing."
Read More →As GM of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District from 1999 through last month, Celia Kupersmith oversaw bridge operations and a bus transit system offering more than 58 local and inter-county routes, and the largest ferry system in California.
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Quiet Commute cars will be offered weekdays on the first and last cars of Northeast Corridor express trains in the “3900-series” – which operate to and from the outer-zone stations of Trenton, Hamilton and Princeton Junction.
Read More →The plan amounted to roughly half of what was allocated to infrastructure in last year's stimulus package. Officials said the proposal project would build on the work already begun.
Read More →The London Chamber of Commerce estimates each day the underground is shut will cost the capital's economy $73.7 million.
Read More →Agency will roll back to its original fare on Sept. 16. CDTA has served more than half a billion customers on its regular route system since it started in 1970.
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