The facility, designed to make transit more accessible to students, features four centrally-located bus stops, two bus shelters, benches and information kiosks in attractively landscaped surroundings.
In Panama, the Secretaría del Metro de Panama awarded a contract to the "Consorcio Linea 1" to build the first line of the Panama Metro. Meanwhile, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican operator OPRET awarded Alstom a contract to supply 15 Metropolis train sets of three cars each, for the line 2 of the Santo Domingo metro.
Talgo will first complete work on four trainsets for Wisconsin and Oregon, then open a maintenance facility to service those vehicles at a location yet to be determined.
RLT Tours cannot resume transportation services until the company takes corrective action to show they are in compliance with federal safety regulations. In addition, the motor carrier was issued a civil penalty of $8,640.
Initially, BT Signaling B.V. will purchase a 25 percent stake in Elteza. Following further approval, BT Signaling B.V. will increase its stake to nearly 50 percent. RZD will remain the majority shareholder.
An industrial engineering assistant professor has brought together a group of students to research the current RoadRUNNER and Aggie Transit systems and come up with more efficient solutions.
The system, Bus on the Go, or BONGO, provides information about bus routes, schedules and the exact location of buses. The initial project cost nearly $300,000, with annual operating costs of about $100,000.
In addition to tracking the shuttles around campus, the new system can receive up-to-the-minute announcements about situations that impact service, such as road closures, accidents or weather-related slow-downs.
Eight shuttles provide transportation services to 40,000 students, faculty and staff throughout the 324-acre campus as well as transportation to and from the Residential Learning College, which is located one and a half miles west of the main campus.
The online platform has been in beta testing since the beginning of the semester and will display the location of vehicles at all times. It will also be made available for smartphones in the future.
Lexington, Ky.’s Blue Grass Tours’ two new coaches feature a state-of-the-art-entertainment system and a smooth-riding wide-ride suspension. Baton Rouge, La.’s First Apostolic Church’s new coach comes equipped with a Cummins engine, Allison B500 transmission and a Smartwave tire pressure monitoring system.
Wisconsin has suspended work under its existing high-speed rail agreement and the incoming Governors in Wisconsin and Ohio have both indicated that they will not move forward to use high-speed rail money received under the Recovery Act.
Cocoa Beach-based Travelynx has seen 25 percent growth in business since 2009, which it attributes to customers willing to pay more for luxury motorcoach services.
Preparations include having two jet-engine-powered snow blowers available to remove ice and snow from tracks and critical switching areas of its rail operations.
Signs for all 270 MBTA stations will be available for sale immediately. Signs will use the same look, design and fonts found in subway stations in Boston and the suburbs, with MBTA receiving a percentage of the sales.
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