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Paratransitby StaffMay 12, 2009

NY MTA approves fare increase

Base subway fares will go up to $2.25 from $2.00 and monthly bus and subway cards will go up to $89 from $81.

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Paratransitby StaffMay 12, 2009

Transportation for America releases reform plan

Developed in consultation with teams of transportation professionals, public officials and stakeholders, "The Route to Reform" outlines a renewed vision for the federal program as well as ways to pay for it, coupled with a restructuring.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

DC Metro taps Ansaldo

The interlocking upgrade is the first step of a new Metro effort to refurbish their existing system with a seamless transfer, hot standby MicroLok II interlocking controller for vital and non-vital functionality.

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Railby StaffMay 11, 2009

Bombardier to supply double-deckers to Paris

Company will supply the three middle cars of the five-car trainsets, amounting to a total of 180 cars. The order is valued at a total of approximately $1.1 billion.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

New Product: Rapid mobile video surveillance

Seon's Sherpa can be used to keep an eye on transit property, prosecute vandalism, and observe the activity of your fleet, drivers and passengers.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

University News Briefs

Harvard to cut back on campus service. LSU moves to privatize. Missouri town looks into offering free transit.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

Missouri university seeks transit manager

Responsibilities include scheduling drivers, interviewing driver applicants, coordinating drug/alcohol testing, reviewing driver logs and driving established campus shuttle routes. The operations supervisor also coordinates driver training and schedules maintenance and repair of the bus fleet.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

Colorado State seeks extended transit service

Transfort, the transit property in Fort Collins, signed a tentative agreement with the Associated Students of Colorado State University (ASCSU) to extend evening service from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on two routes serving neighborhoods west and south of campus.

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Busby StaffMay 11, 2009

Campus bus response to swine flu threat

About three of five bus operators are taking special precautions against the spread of the swine flu virus, according to a random survey of 26 university shuttle bus operators and transit agencies.

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Railby StaffMay 11, 2009

Alstom to equip TTC with train control

The $43.1 million contract, plus options and alternatives, includes the design and supply of equipment for the train control upgrade of the existing Yonge University Spadina Subway Line.

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