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The challenges of paratransit providers in the U.S. and Canada, as taken from METRO's paratransit survey, are diverse.
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More than $40 billion in projects across the country seeks $20 billion in federal funding; less than half of that is available under the most optimistic scenario. Can you say innovative financing?
Read More →Third annual survey of transit chief executives finds continued anxiety over funding. Meanwhile, the average reported salary was $143,249, wildly higher than last year's number.
Read More →The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled the Fulton Center, located at the crossroads of Lower Manhattan on Broadway between John and Fulton Streets. The fully digital transit and retail hub integrates architectural ingenuity that fuses history, art, and sustainable engineering.
Read More →In reaching its decision, the board considered the District’s mounting long-term structural deficits, with current projections forecasting annual operating deficits of about $50 million beginning in FY 2027-28 and continuing in the years ahead.
Read More →With global fuel prices soaring in recent months, composites can provide bus operators with much-needed savings by providing improved integrated design possibilities and reducing lifetime maintenance costs.
Read More →To commemorate the occasion, current members of the MTC were presented with a custom painting of the Charlotte Transportation Center in Uptown.
Read More →A motorcoach operated by Fresno-based Autobuses Coordinados USA Inc., traveling from Los Angeles to Modesto on State Route 99, drifted out of its travel lanes, striking a barrier system and a highway signpost shortly after 3 a.m., Aug. 2, 2016, near Livingston, Calif.
Read More →Students’ problems with paratransit came to the Professional Student Government’s attention when a student with a disability couldn’t reach her pickup destination due to winter conditions.
Read More →Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a new motorcoach safety action plan, focusing on issues including driver fatigue and inattention, vehicle rollovers, occupant ejections and oversight of unsafe carriers.
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