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Safety Cornerby Steve MentzerNovember 14, 2014

Are your bus operators square?

If you are in transit, you know this question has nothing to do with lifestyle and everything to do with left hand turns. And in transit, we prefer squares. For the sake of clarity, we are talking about the difference between taking extra care to square off a left-hand turn as opposed to simply rounding the turn. A square turn involves setting up the pivot point of the bus and by its very nature requires the operator to conduct the turn at a much slower rate of speed.

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Newsby StaffNovember 14, 2014

Nova wins $80M, 13 municipality Metrolinx contract

The new order includes 27 buses with deliveries scheduled to start in 2015. The joint procurement also includes options for future orders until 2017 — quantities up to 188 40 footer buses and up to 15 articulated buses — to meet demand.

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Newsby StaffNovember 11, 2014

AC Transit receives $81M to finish BRT project

As one of the highest rated transit projects in the nation, the agency’s BRT will link one of the busiest traffic corridors in the Bay Area with a fast, economical and environmentally friendly means of transportation.

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Newsby StaffNovember 10, 2014

Toledo agency exploring private contracting

TARPS is exploring the idea of using private vehicles on weekend afternoons and evenings so it can focus resources at busier times of the week where it now is shorthanded

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Newsby StaffNovember 6, 2014

Fla.'s HART teams for digital ad project

Program allows local businesses to go online, view a map of HART, add one or multiple stops to a shopping cart and check out, and then, Commuter Advertising will upload their media to play onboard HART buses at the purchased stop(s).

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Newsby StaffNovember 4, 2014

INIT partners with BC Transit for Kelowna RapidBus implementation

The project was designed to service a nearly 19-mile stretch on Highway 97 in Kelowna, British Columbia, running from West Kelowna in the South to the University of British Columbia Okanagan in the North.

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Newsby StaffNovember 3, 2014

Wirelessly charged electric bus makes U. of Utah campus debut

The bus, which has been operational for about three months, currently runs in the morning from a bus station in Salt Lake City to University Hospital as well as an additional route on the UofU campus.

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Newsby StaffOctober 31, 2014

Canadian bus driver safety bill gaining momentum

Bill S-221 would amend the Criminal Code to require courts to consider it an aggravating circumstance for the purpose of sentencing if the victim of an assault is a public transit operator engaged in the performance of their duty.

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Newsby StaffOctober 30, 2014

Chicago unveils 2 New Flyer Xcelsior electric buses

While CTA’s electric buses are the first New Flyer XE40 heavy-duty transit buses to enter into regular transit service, an earlier prototype bus has undergone all-weather service testing in Winnipeg, Canada and has been operating in shuttle service since March 2014.

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Newsby StaffOctober 30, 2014

MCI opening new Canadian sales, service center

The new location will also feature new MCI and Setra coaches; pre-owned coach inventory; parts for MCI, Setra and other-make coaches and buses; and an MCI Mobile Maintenance unit.

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