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Turning down millions of federal funding dollars for rail will cost both states thousands of jobs now. The financial support is being redirected to about a dozen other grateful states. Do the new Governors that Wisconsin and Ohio recently elected care that they may end up being left behind in the race for jobs and transportation?
Read More →Supporters are looking to push for increased Amtrak service and a commuter rail line now that high-speed rail plans are dead.
Read More →Gov. Ed Rendell proposed the funding to help the Port Authority of Allegheny County provide public transit service while it works out a funding crisis. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will vote on the proposal later this month.
Read More →The state will also owe interest and penalty charges to be determined by the Federal Transit Administration.
Read More →The move follows Tuesday's election of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, who repeatedly vowed to kill the $810M line during his campaign, as governor, but two months before he takes office.
Read More →Commuter benefits may be significantly reduced soon. The ARC tunnel died a second death. With so much partisan gridlock on the eve of the midterms, does transit — or the environment — stand a chance?
Read More →Gov. Christie, who withdrew his support for the project a few weeks ago, said this decision to scrap it would not be reconsidered.
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The ARC Project Executive Committee recommended termination of the ARC Project based on a 30-day review, which confirmed the project is expected to substantially exceed its current budget. Cost overruns are estimated to be in a range from more than $2 billion to over $5 billion.
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Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida are among the states with projects that may be imperiled.
Read More →Following a project to equip more than 1,000 buses with GPS technology in 2009, dispatchers in the MBTA's Bus Operations Control Center were able for the first time to pinpoint the location of every MBTA bus in real-time. As of today, that same information is available to T bus riders, regardless of route.
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