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Will provide valuable job skills and training to ex-offenders, increasing self-sufficiency for hard-to-employ individuals while providing CTA with additional resources to enhance the customer experience with cleaner buses and trains.
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The $1.5 million federal earmark will help the agency purchase 51 CNG buses.
Read More →In Philadelphia, where more than 35 percent of the population relies on public transit as its sole means of transportation and about 25 percent of residents live below the poverty level, accessing affordable, fresh and healthy foods is a challenge. SEPTA is working with the City and The Food Trust to help make farm fresh fruits and vegetables a staple of Philadelphians’ diets.
Read More →A proposed task force, funded in part by the University, will study the community’s transit and traffic needs and the effects of the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood and other pending developments.
Read More →Foothill Transit operates a fleet of 306 buses and is the second-largest transit agency in Southern California.
Read More →Community Transit will increase its ability to carry passengers by replacing its artiulated buses with double-deckers.
Read More →APTA’s award for best transit agency with more than 30 million annual trips will be presented at the association’s annual meeting in Atlanta.
Read More →Savings are based on the cost of commuting by public transportation, compared to the cost of owning and driving a vehicle, which includes the July 24 average national gas price ($3.48 per gallon- reported by AAA) and the national unreserved monthly parking rate.
Read More →Transit systems owe it to themselves to educate their riders and communities about their funding sources, so they can build support for transit-related legislation.
Read More →Preliminary statistics show 2.5% increase nationally for all-time record of 1.63 billion trips in 2005.
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