NYC transit hubs flooded with lost items
Sometimes oddities like a pet bunny rabbit, a prosthetic leg, a car bumper and a tuba have turned up on the subway.
Sometimes oddities like a pet bunny rabbit, a prosthetic leg, a car bumper and a tuba have turned up on the subway.
Polly Trottenberg will be the new DOT Commissioner, replacing Janette Sadik-Khan, who served six years as Commissioner under outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Trottenberg has served as the Under Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation since January 2013.
Recommended portable or permanent flood barriers at facilities, which suffered severe flooding during the storm, resulting in more than $100 million in damage.
A series of videos, contests and social media messaging encourages riders to “Be a Safety Hero!” by watching four short bus safety videos and taking a quiz. Their responses are entered into a drawing that randomly awards one 30-day bus pass each week through Jan. 31.
Will provide the millions of customers who use the bus terminal with directions to their gates and other amenities within the terminal, as well as searchable, real time bus schedule information.
Include adding easy-to-understand graphic decals to every rail turnstile and bus Ventra reader to identify the optimal location for card placement.
If a person relieves her or himself, the urine detection system sensors sound an alarm alerting transit police.
Heads off a threatened strike that that had been twice averted. Provides for a wage increase of 9.5% that will be phased in over the three years of the contract. The agency and union also agreed on a flat monthly contribution of $120 per employee during the life of the contract.
Starting Jan. 1, the monthly amount that commuters can set aside before taxes to spend on public transportation is to drop from $245 to $130. It could be months before transit riders see their benefits restored to the current level, according to advocates.
New contract will see signaling modernized on 40% of the network, allowing more trains to run more often and more reliably.
The report, which analyzes the D.C. Metro system, proposes that greater reliability of transit schedules could motivate more people to leave their vehicles at home and ride the bus.
A suspected suicide bombing hit a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd, killing at least 14 people. This comes on the heels of yesterday’s explosion at Volgograd’s main rail station — a major transit point for people traveling to Sochi — which killed 17 people and injured 35.
The city is beginning a multiyear plan to replace its fleet, while at the same time working through a community-based process to decide the scope and future of the bus program, which advocates say will run out of money in a little more than a year without new funding.
Computer hackers had bypassed Breeze card security features to make counterfeit cards. The personal information of legitimate Breeze fare card holders was not compromised.
FMCSA found John Andrew Ciego, which does business as “Its Good Promotion,” was endangering the traveling public by failing to ensure the safety of its vehicles and drivers.
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