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The confusion over what to do now that gas prices have dropped will test how well transit authorities hang on to their big ridership increases from the past four months. Obviously, gas prices were the reason for the 10-percent-or-more boost in ridership numbers across the country this past summer.
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Legislation will provide $3.5 billion to prevent terrorist attacks.
Read More →A transit planning committee endorsed a bus and rail plan to be financed in part by a half-cent sales tax increase in Durham and Orange counties. However, voters already face separate proposals for a quarter-cent increase in their sales tax.
Read More →Lakeland Area Mass Transit District may provide a bus to the new Florida Polytechnic University to take students from the school's campus to downtown Lakeland and Auburndale. The university is expected to open in the fall.
Read More →Ninety percent of respondents indicated that states and localities should increase investments in public transportation as they receive federal transportation funding.
Read More →The Summer Youth Pass costs $25.00, a substantial discount compared to two months of unlimited adult bus passes, which costs $160.00.
Read More →Cause of Action, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, claims the Chicago Transit Authority may have inflated by up to $150 million the federal funding it received since 1982 by "fraudulently over-reporting" the number of miles buses travel while in service.
Read More →After a preliminary audit issued by the FTA claimed that Miami-Dade Transit didn’t properly account for fare collections or follow rules for using federal money, which resulted in the suspendion of $180 million in grants, the County hired consultants to correct its procedures.
Read More →The call seeks to protect the industry, and subsequently other industries, from patent trolls — shell companies that purchase patents with no intention of innovating, but instead sue those who do.
Read More →The goal of the campaign is to promote awareness that CTA will not tolerate harassment on its trains, buses or other CTA property and to provide helpful information to customers who believe they are the victims of harassment.
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