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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 30, 2024

Crichlow to Serve as Interim President of New York City Transit

He will succeed Richard Davey, who served as president of New York City Transit from May 2022 until announcing his departure this week.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 22, 2024

Spare, Winnipeg Transit Partner to Make Specialized Transit Services More Convenient

The initiative marks a focused effort to incorporate advanced technology into Transit Plus’s operations. This will improve service accessibility, efficiency, and reliability for users, according to Spare.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 25, 2024

Long Island Rail Road Marks 190 Years

The LIRR is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying more than 200,000 customers each weekday. Last year in conjunction with the opening of Grand Central Madison and Main Line Third Track, it operated more than 77,000 more trains than it did the prior year.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 12, 2024

Long Island Rail Road Names 42nd President

Rob Free has served as LIRR’s acting president for the last six months.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschMarch 19, 2024

Moving from Traditional to Modernized Transit

Thought leader and 21-time best-selling author Seth Godin recently shared in his daily blog a sentence that captured our attention “more and better aren't the same…" Indeed, and the space between more and better is the state of the public transit industry’s crossroad.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 12, 2024

Metro-North, LIRR Experience Record On-Time Performance

Metro-North was able to achieve the record on-time performance while still maintaining its aggressive infrastructure program, with crews working to complete a major switch replacement project on Grand Central Terminal’s upper level.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 8, 2024

WMATA Report Sees Improvements in Ridership, Customer Satisfaction

Nearly one-half of Metrobus customers saw buses arrive every 12 minutes or less, and more than half of rail customers saw trains arrive every six minutes or less, on average.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 1, 2024

Chicago Summit Focuses on Improving Transit Safety

The Summit gathered leaders and transit riders to explore solutions, including enhancing personal security and addressing perception of crime on transit and incorporating transit-specific strategies into social services initiatives.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseFebruary 27, 2024

New York's Paratransit Ridership, On-Time Performance Up in '23

The MTA recently abandoned the industry standard of a 30-minute on time window and adopted the more customer friendly 20 minutes. Even with the smaller window, on-time performance consistently exceeded 90%.

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ArticlesNovember 27, 2023

The Need for Transit Data Cleansing and Standardization

While ensuring passengers have access to real-time data is the new norm in transit, there are important safeguards that must be put into place to be sure that information is both accurate and being used effectively by the transit agencies themselves.

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