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Testifying before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, APTA Chair Dr. Beverly Scott, who is also GM/CEO of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), said that APTA has just completed a new survey that identified more than $8 billion in “ready-to-go” projects from 170 public transit systems that could start within 90 days of federal funding being made available.
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Emphasizing the need to employ every kind of transportation to meet future demands, AASHTO calls for an overall $545 billion investment from 2010 through 2015 for highways, transit, freight movement and intercity passenger rail.
Read More →Denver's Regional Transportation District named "Outstanding" transit system in its category, while Greater Cleveland RTA's Calabrese takes top transportation manager award.
Read More →Report will show how much a person can save on a monthly and yearly basis by taking public transit and living with one less car in his or her household.
Read More →The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) applauds the House vote to pass H.R. 6052, an important piece of legislation that will authorize investing almost $2 billion in U.S. public transportation systems.
Read More →GRTC Transit System has been recognized as the best transit system of its size in North America by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
Read More →The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is sponsoring the 2008 National Dump the Pump Day, a public awareness day that emphasizes public transportation as the quickest way to beat high gas prices and encourages people to ride a bus or train instead of driving a car.
Read More →The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reported that Americans took 2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008, almost 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period.
Read More →Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) won the Rail Transit Team Achievement Award at the 16th Annual American Public Transportation Association (APTA) International Rail Rodeo, held in conjunction with the 2008 APTA Rail Conference in San Francisco. First place in the Operators Competition went to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (S.F. MUNI.)
Read More →According to an American Public Transportation Association(APTA) survey, 35 percent of vacationers said they will use public transit, representing a seven percent increase from APTA’s 2007 “Green Travel Forecast Survey.”
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