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The Philadelphia-based design and fabrication company is working with New Jersey Transit on a pilot program to test two different designs - a hinged-door and sliding-door model - on two different buses.
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Roughly 14 percent of transit buses currently on the road run on natural gas. Demand is growing, according to industry experts, with natural gas engines specified for about 25 percent of all new bus orders.
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This economic train wreck may be avoided if business leaders, transit riders, local elected officials and others rise up and demand that politicians inside the Beltway stop the nonsense and enact the sensible federal transportation law that is long overdue.
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The agency hopes to have an all-hybrid bus fleet in place by FY2015/2016.
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Growing customers can be an exciting adventure. So often, we don't think about the approaches to good customer programs that enhance our business. We also don't think hard enough about the value of growing our workforce too - which results in customer growth. However, timing in our industry couldn't be better to make this effort a priority and make our customers more aware of the benefits of public transportation.
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The controversial ad was designed, paid for, and presented to the MTA a month ago, but the MTA refused to approve the campaign, so the ad's sponsors filed suit.
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Paul Revere Transportation is using the coaches for its airport shuttle service. Coaches are wheelchair lift-equipped, feature Wi-Fi connectivity, exterior and interior destinations signs and a “talking bus system” that audibly announces upcoming stops.
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Also offers a retrofit kit for buses already in service.
Read More →The Jonesboro transit system is recruiting volunteers to help people who have not used public transportation before, and may be afraid to try it on their own.
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Program aimed at fostering positive labor relations and heightened employee morale. Metro Transit recently added the names of individual employees' children, grandchildren, and other special children in their lives to 20 fixed-route buses.
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