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NewsSeptember 3, 2021

Sacramento to Launch Contactless Payments on Light Rail

The SacRT release follows the launch of California’s first contactless payments demonstration on Monterey-Salinas Transit buses in May.

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NewsSeptember 1, 2021

DART Board Approves Final Bus Network Plan

With the goal of providing greater frequency, longer service hours, and improved access to destinations, the redesigned network goes into effect on Jan. 24.

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NewsAugust 31, 2021

Allison, ElDorado National Partner to Bring Electric Hybrid Buses to San Francisco

ElDorado National said it expects to deliver the electric hybrid buses in the second quarter of 2022.

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ArticlesAugust 30, 2021

Commuting Into the Future: A Look at Post-Pandemic Ridership

Even with COVID-19 restrictions in place and a massive drop in tourism numbers, the RTC provided 56 million essential transit trips on its fixed-route bus system, 1.1. million trips on its paratransit service, and nearly 75,000 rides on its senior and veteran services.

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NewsAugust 27, 2021

ABA Forms African American Motorcoach Council

The main priority of the AAMC, which is being led by Clarence Cox of Georgia Coach Lines in Fayetteville, Ga., will be to help ABA in lobbying for more federal government funding for the motorcoach industry, especially on behalf of small, family-owned minority businesses.

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NewsAugust 27, 2021

Phoenix Motorcars Surpasses 3M All-Electric Mile Mark

All Phoenix Motorcars electric vehicles are built on the Ford E-450 chassis, allowing for an extensive list of cutaway body options to select, including service trucks, utility trucks, flatbed trucks, box trucks, delivery trucks, shuttle buses, and school buses.

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NewsAugust 24, 2021

IndyGo Lands $81M FTA Grant for Purple Line BRT Project

The Purple Line project will operate along a corridor between downtown Indianapolis northeast and downtown Lawrence and replace and improve much of the existing Route 39 local bus service, one of the highest ridership routes in the IndyGo system.

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Photo GalleriesAugust 18, 2021

PSTA, SEIU Celebrate New Pay Scale for Bus Operators

The board at St. Petersburg, Fla.’s Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority unanimously approved a three-year contract with its union, SEIU, which will bump the starting pay for bus operators from $15 per hour to $16 per hour, beginning Oct. 1.

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NewsAugust 18, 2021

Delaware Transit Adds 4 GILLIG Battery-Electric Buses

Funding for the buses was provided through a 2019 Low-No Program grant award.

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NewsAugust 16, 2021

WMATA Adding Discounts, More Trains and Buses

The changes, approved by the board in June, followed extensive public input about how riders plan to travel.

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