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Cliff Henke, a contributing editor to METRO, is senior analyst at PB. His views herein are solely his own.
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University Transportation Centers maintain vital partnerships with regional, state and local transportation and transit agencies, to help find solutions to challenges impacting their communities.
Read More →Under the charter rule, public transit agencies that are supported by taxpayer dollars are not allowed to operate charters if a private carrier is available and capable of performing the work.
Read More →Two agencies add first Orion VIIs to their fleets. Deliveries are set for late summer and fall of 2010.
Read More →Two Chicagoans claim that funding disproportionately favors Metra over the Chicago Transit Authority, violating civil rights laws.
Read More →Steve Banta, who has more than 23 years in the transit industry, has worked in progressively important management roles for several public transit agencies including in his current role as Portland, Ore. TriMet's executive director of operations.
Read More →Will provide program and project schedule control support services and staff augmentation services for all phases of project design and construction. MTA agencies that are expected to be supported under the contract include MTA New York City Transit, Metro-North Railroad and the MTA Bus Co.
Read More →Only about one-third of surveyed transit agencies believed specific programs should be put in place for women and only three had initiated programs addressing women's security needs.
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On the verge of receiving ARRA funding, many agencies were either left scrambling to stretch funds using ‘creative financing’ or playing it more conservatively. A new report calls for increased fed funding to help circumvent money woes should the economy, financial downturns worsen or occur again.
Read More →Deaf-blind residents of Minnesota are working with transportation officials to make improvements.
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