More transportation options can cut congestion, costs, report says
Increasing transit round-trip work commutes by four days (or eight trips) each month can reduce driving costs by 14 to 26%.
Increasing transit round-trip work commutes by four days (or eight trips) each month can reduce driving costs by 14 to 26%.
The new Monmouth County Local Bus fixed-route service agreement is effective September 2013 and will run through September 2020.
A downtown Kansas City business owner told the Missouri Court of Appeals that she is upset she now must charge her customers a one cent sales tax to pay for the downtown streetcar project. The city’s attorney argued that the deadline for challenges to the plan had passed.
Whether the Buy America-compliant streetcars will be on-wire or off-wire is still being explored.
The 35 buses will enter service in July of 2014 and replace an ageing fleet of conventionally powered buses.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis) have both raised concerns about the project. Their staffs were told that there are still “serious issues” with the application and “significant uncertainties” about the project.
Expected to address allegations that his downfall was connected to his refusal to grant the Illinois House Speaker's patronage requests.
Dismantling of the system, known for having low ridership and offering little convenience in its city center route, will allow for expansion of the city's light rail network.
The system would consist of some sort of tube that would carry people from downtown San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes, or more than twice as fast as airplane travel, at less than the cost of high-speed rail.
The piece of metal linking two train lines “broke away” when the accident took place, SNCF Chairman Guillaume Pepy said at a press conference.
Drivers on three of the agency’s busiest bus routes enter information into a computer when a customer doesn’t pay the full fare to pinpoint when and where people are not paying.
About one month ago the agency finished replacing its oldest ticket machines — referred to as type 3s — with new, type 6 machines. Now 117 – or more than 50% – of the 213 ticket machines along the MAX and WES systems are new.
As a high school student, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person as was required by law in Montgomery, Ala.
Initiatives under the TEP Draft Implementation Strategy include travel time reduction proposals, service changes and associated systemwide infrastructure, terminal and transfer points improvements, overhead wire expansion and long-term studies.
Studied all elements of how subway service operates on the line, including scheduling conflicts with other train lines that use the same tracks, how train personnel prepare their trains to enter service at terminals and where trains stop at stations.
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