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With many states predicting their populations to double in the next 30-plus years, many are looking for ways to ease traffic congestion and make getting around town as easy and environmentally friendly as possible. Adding freeway lanes, especially in metropolitan areas, is rarely an option, and even when viable, it is costly and could possibly increase traffic during the time the new lanes are being built. Some airports, likewise, would become even more overcrowded than they are now.
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Currently, BART must shut down overnight for necessary maintenance work. The working group in its report recommended further study of the challenges to overnight BART service, but recognized that ultimately a second Transbay Tube may be necessary to ever have truly overnight transbay rail service.
Read More →All Metrorail passes will now come with free Metrobus service, providing a better value and experience of customers.
Read More →Close calls are safety-related issues or concerns, which could be anything from a passenger car door that opened on the wrong side of a train to a distracted conductor who was almost struck by a car being coupled in a rail yard.
Read More →Nominations are evaluated on four criteria: effectiveness, benefit level, innovation, and transferability.
Read More →Service suspensions target low ridership hours to improve PATCO’s safety, maintenance, and station conditions.
Read More →Milestones include the completion of snow and ice removal from all platforms and critical rail switches system-wide, as well as the addition of supplemental trains, doubledecker and standard passenger cars to increase capacity and combat overcrowding.
Read More →Along with lighting improvements along the Green Line, the upgrade kicks off the first of several phases of the Safe & Secure program.
Read More →Its facilities, automated equipment and lean manufacturing process reduce labor content and minimize waste resulting in significant cost savings for standard or custom cable assemblies, box builds or other electromechanical builds.
Read More →While a basic repair service program was in place, Luminator has restructured and formalized the program to improve service and market competitiveness.
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