Mayor Dave Bing, Gov. Rick Snyder and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that a regional transit authority is needed in Detroit to finalize $25 million in federal funding for a series of rapid buses and another $25 million for a light rail streetcar project.
Transit officials are seeking opinions on the MetroRapid East-West project while they pursue funding for the final design and construction phases. The system will be the first rapid transit system in the Hillsborough County area.
The increases come during an era of successful and unprecedented MTA management actions to cut controllable expenses. In fact, the MTA will spend less in 2012 on its controllable costs than it did in 2011. Year-over-year controllable costs are lower by 0.3%.
Nearly all of the new hires came to the CTA after they attended one of the agency’s three bus driver job fairs this summer, or heard or saw the advertisements for the fairs, all of which were held in the footprint of the Red Line project between Roosevelt Road and 95th Street.
The first phase of the T-Third Street light rail line went into service in 2007. Once the extension opens, the projected ridership along the entire 6.8-mile T-Third line is estimated to be 43,700 daily boardings per weekday, the highest ridership in the system.
Tiger Transit drivers will now receive an end-of-year bonus and overtime pay, as well as additional personal, holiday and sick days. The new contract meets most, if not all, of the drivers' requests, Groome Transportation officials said.
The trips come after Community Transit drastically cut service over the past two years in response to declining sales-tax revenue. Much of that service was on local routes.
Of the 81,000-plus boardings on Oxford-University Transit, 78,805 of the riders represented Ole Miss staff, faculty and students.
The bus system, called Starkville MSU Area Rapid Transit, will connect the city of Starkville to the Mississippi State University campus.
Will operate fixed-route campus shuttle service for Buffalo State and East Georgia State College. Renewed shuttle service for College of Staten Island.
Now offers campus car sharing at more than 300 colleges and universities throughout North America.
Making free and discounted rides available to students and faculty at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Northern Kentucky University, and Gateway Community & Technical College.
Ridership reached 81,964 passenger boardings — mostly represented by staff, faculty and students — which is a significant jump from the previous record of 55,428. The system plans to acquire three more used buses.
Students can view live GPS data of the location of the After Hours shuttle by downloading the free Ride Systems app for both iPhone and Droid at the school's website. The system provides the location of the shuttle updated every 10 seconds.
Work on the 25,000 square foot new administration building and transit hub is expected to bring much-needed jobs to the Coachella Valley. The building is expected to be completed in late 2013 or early 2014.
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