The Transportation Safety Board of Canada sent a team of investigators to the site of the incident. The cause of the derailment is not yet known.
Read More →More than 60 transit systems in the U.S. and Canada operate New Flyer CNG buses today.
Read More →TTC chair Karen Stintz spent 10 days posing as a transit worker for the reality show, Undercover Boss Canada, and said it gave her a new appreciation of what employees experience as they do their jobs.
Read More →From the 'Bus Barn' this month arises two very important concerns regarding the use of bus simulator supplemental training: performance management and speed control. During the past year, I had the pleasure of visiting and conducting several train the trainer sessions at transit agencies in North America and Canada. I was pleased to see the passion among the trainers, as this is a necessary ingredient.
Read More →The transportation operator maintains strong commitments to current contracts in the U.S. and Canada transportation markets following a statement that Veolia Environnement (VE), parent company of Veolia Transdev (VT), will allow Caisse des Depots to purchase VE’s 50% interest in VT over the next two years.
Read More →Niagara College's Niagara-on-the-Lake campus reached an agreement with St. Catharines Transit to increase service. While the additional service is meeting the extra demand, the college is struggling with year-over-year inflationary increases passed on by the transit system.
Read More →Introduced representatives from 15 higher education institutions from the U.S. and Canada to its Personal Rapid Transit system at the annual Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference in Pittsburgh.
Read More →The proposed amendments to the Railway Safety Act will encourage rail companies to create and maintain a culture of safety and penalize rule breakers.
Read More →The update reflects the evolution of services offered to travelers with a disability since the original Code was issued in 1998.
Read More →Are you or is someone you know an outstanding professional in the transportation industry? METRO Magazine will be profiling Movers & Shakers from the all over the U.S. and Canada, on both the public and private sides, from small businesses to large municipal agencies, for this special section of the September/October issue.
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