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Providing an incentive to use inner-city transit will help reduce traffic on campus, free up space for cyclists and pedestrians and reduce the university's carbon footprint, officials say.
Read More →The university is working with its police department and the Student Government Association to improve safety on campus, with expanded shuttle services as part of the solution.
Read More →When the program was rolled out in June, the provincial government didn’t give TransLink the necessary funds — $85.1 million, according to the agency — to back up the expansion.
Read More →The university's SafeRide program is adding three additional phone lines for the service and doubling the number of people answering phones. The University Transit System will begin a pilot program Thursday, Oct. 28, to extend late-night bus service to Thursdays through the end of this semester.
Read More →The ten transit and six bicycle shelters have been provided by MSSmedia, an outdoor advertising company that works with universities.
Read More →Statistics students will count how many students ride the University and Athens Transit bus systems. As a member of the National Transit Database, the Athens Transit Bus system is required to collect the ridership data.
Read More →Robert Baer is credited with helping lead the successful campaign to pass a half-cent sale-tax increase in St. Louis County last April that enabled Metro to restore service reductions and finance future expansions and new services.
Read More →Board Chairman Gilbert Garcia emphasized that Metro expects the $900 million grant to be restored. First, however, the agency must cancel the $331 million railcar contract with CAF USA.
Read More →The vehicles will be manufactured at Bombardier Transportation's Görlitz facility in Germany and in Israel.
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Case studies of Germany, Spain, Japan and China illuminate a set of common principles that those countries have used to nurture and grow some of the largest, most successful railroad manufacturing companies in the world.
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