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Omnitrans and Riverside Transit Agency may lose approximately $30 million each in funds from the Federal Transit Administration because of union concerns over a new state pension reform law. As a result, the Department of Labor put a hold on the grant funding.
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Riverside Transit Agency’s travel training program is effectively steering a growing number of customers away from its costly Dial-A-Ride service as well as saving the agency money along the way.
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Last March, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office filed a criminal complaint against Coach Operator George Bateman and issued an arrest warrant, charging him with one felony count of insurance fraud.
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The Go-Pass and U-Pass programs experienced more than 1.3 million student boardings this fiscal year. To celebrate, the agency is giving away iPads to a student from Riverside City College and another from Moreno Valley College.
Read More →Funds are provided through the FTA’s FY2012 Clean Fuels Grant Program.
Read More →About 4% of the agency's riders use Dial-A-Ride, but the service consumes 18% of the agency’s budget.
Read More →As part of the campaign, posts at selected bus stops are crowned with a solar panel that charges a battery that powers the light-emitting diode, or LED, fixtures.
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RTA's ElDorado National vehicle is being used to test Eaton's hydraulic hybrid system, which was installed by Riverside, Calif.-based Complete Coach Works.
Read More →Eighty-five percent of voting students district-wide approved an initiative that authorized Mt. San Jacinto College's board of trustees to implement a $6 fee per semester to subsidize the Go-Pass program, which was slated to end in August when current funding expires.
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