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Achievements include, significantly increased ridership and launch of the nation’s leading reduced-fare program.
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BBB has steadily decreased its preventable accident rate from 2.21 accidents per 100,000 miles in fiscal year 2015 to 1.83 accidents per 100,000 miles in FY 2017.
Read More →Only 3.6% of the TIGER grants that were recently announced went to public transit projects, representing a significant decrease in public transit TIGER grants.
Read More →"A strong federal investment in public transportation needs to be preserved and increased, not cut," says APTA President/CEO Skoutelas.
Read More →In a unanimous vote today, the board named Paul P. Skoutelas to serve as its new leader effective January 8, 2018.
Read More →The election of Mendes marks the first time in APTA’s 135-year history that the chair of the Legislative Committee is from a private-sector firm.
Read More →Named Outstanding Public Transportation System for 2017, the TTC last won the award in 1986.
Read More →The Rail Safety & Security Excellent Awards recognizes exceptional safety and security programs for rail systems in North America.
Read More →When Joel Volinski accepted a job as the interim director of Florida’s Broward County Transit Agency in 1983, he had never ridden on a public transit bus. “Here I was, the person who knew less about the subject than anyone, and suddenly I was directing the biggest agency in county government,” he tells me, leaning back in his leather chair. “So you have to have a sense of humor, and you have to be kind of a quick study.”
Read More →The savings are based on the cost of commuting by public transportation compared to the cost of owning and driving a vehicle.
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