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Transit authority operators nationwide have been victims of sometimes brutally violent acts, but in Philadelphia, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has had a decrease in bus operator assaults by almost 60% since 2011. How did they do that?
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Agency will use funding to purchase: 10 new 30-foot gasoline-electric hybrid buses for use on neighborhood Mini Blue lines; three 60-foot flexible articulated buses that will be added to the busy Rapid 3 and Rapid 7 lines; and up to three 40-foot alternative fueled buses (manufactured by ElDorado National) that will replace several of the agency’s older diesel models.
Read More →Santiago Osorio will serve as deputy chief, bus operations, while George Wright was promoted to deputy chief, rail operations.
Read More →Speeding may have been the cause of a crash that killed two passengers and injured 28.
Read More →The company's current President/CEO, Bob Foley, will step down and assume the role of president of Coach Finance Group.
Read More →Using the larger bus on one of Santa Barbara City College's express routes will allow MTD officials to take another bus off the route, saving time and fuel costs.
Read More →In a Beat-the-Bus competition, both a cyclist and a runner beat a TransLink bus in completing a 12-mile route. Students plan to argue that service must be improved.
Read More →Will represent more than 50 percent of the 64,000 total transit buses that will be delivered worldwide by 2015, up from 28 percent of total bus deliveries in 2010.
Read More →One of the projects is a new form of express bus service that will operate as a downtown circulator to move commuters quickly on designated bus-priority lanes.
Read More →Law enforcement is tailing bus drivers on a route in North Richmond after a recent bus shooting. Drivers said that violence on the route is escalating.
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