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While the agency’s light rail ridership forecasts seem overly optimistic and its citizen-oversight panel is insubstantial, the agency did adapt well to the recession.
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Regional transportation officials approved a plan to allow the agencies to divert millions of dollars intended to maintain or purchase buses and railcars to fill substantial gaps in their operating budgets.
Read More →Up to 50% of transit delays consists of waiting at red lights in signalized intersections and these upgrades have the potential to significantly reduce that time.
Read More →One Southern California city’s transit system celebrates 35 years of operations and its many successes. Meanwhile, a city in the Midwest is so strapped it can’t even get half its buses to destinations on time. Which is more representative of public transportation’s current reality in the U.S.?
Read More →Mary Cummings will work alongside Deputy CEO and Chief System Officer Kimberly Farley.
Read More →The FTA Tribal Transit Program provides discretionary grants to projects eligible to receive planning, capital and operating assistance for tribal public transit services. Some grants will be used to plan or launch new bus, van and commuter service in rural communities that have never been served by public transit before.
Read More →Transit agencies’ lost and found departments catalog, store and sometimes track down the owners of items left on buses and railcars.
Read More →Sound Transit estimates the loans will save $245 million through 2046.
Read More →A contingency plan if workers strike would require that all cars carry at least four people to enter or leave Manhattan.
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