Women In Transportation: Mattie P. Carter
Title: Commissioner Organization: Memphis Area Transit Authority City: Memphis, Tenn.
Title: Commissioner Organization: Memphis Area Transit Authority City: Memphis, Tenn.
The real job creator, of course, is what APTA and its business members have advocated for more than a decade: a stable, longer-term funding bill at current levels or better.
Destination sign companies offer transit agencies digital solutions to offering riders up-to-date, detail-rich information. While larger agencies look to utilize the new software and wireless controllers to gain revenue through advertisements, smaller transportation agencies can celebrate the dropping prices and long warranties.
Although nothing new, employment generation is the renewed focus of new federal and local spending on rapid transit projects.
Despite budget problems, the agency is looking to add customer service representatives and a new 24-hour interactive phone system to accommodate an increase in calls when it launches its electronic fare collection system next year.
Plans to consolidate three of its core services from centers in different parts of Baltimore in a downtown hub under a $15.4 million contract to integrate and update operations.
Transit use has been steadily rising since 2006 — from 54.2 percent of New Yorkers in the five boroughs in 2006 to 55.7 percent in 2010.
The completion of tunneling marks a major milestone in the $4.45 billion project that will provide service from 96th Street to 63rd Street as an extension of the Q train.
Will deliver its Cityflo 650 solution for Line 5 of the São Paulo Metro in Brazil. The new system will enable trains to circulate safely with a short 75-second headway.
Raising fares and cutting service were top ways transit systems were handling the problem. The average transit executive salary totals $119,000, while the average time spent in the industry was 24 years.
Profiles of influential people in the public transportation industry on both the public and private sides, from small businesses to large municipal agencies.
The office of Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter along with the City of Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) and green roofing company, Roofmeadow, partnered on the project.
Opened to the public to long lines of excited patrons who arrived at stations one-half hour before the 6 a.m. start of service.
Will improve intercity passenger and freight rail service on the Cascades line. Includes $16.1 million for design, environmental review and construction work to stabilize and improve track structure along the Pacific Northwest Corridor and $15 million for construction of a new, rail access route to the Port of Vancouver.
Passenger railroads must provide level-entry boarding at new or altered stations in which no track passing through the station and adjacent to platforms is shared with existing freight rail operations.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams had encouraged eclipse viewers to take mass transit to their destinations for safety and congestion relief.
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