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Newsby StaffSeptember 17, 2024

TransLink's Mayors' Council Calls on Voters to Help 'Save Transit'

Metro Vancouver residents can visit the Access for Everyone website, enter their name, postal code, and email, and a letter will be sent to their local candidates and provincial party leaders urging them to invest in public transit and avoid cuts to services.

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Newsby StaffAugust 22, 2024

San Diego MTS Ridership Up 10% in FY24

During the last fiscal year (July 2023 – June 2024), the transit agency logged 75,663,343 passenger trips, a 10.4% increase over Fiscal Year 2023 (68,511,363).

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Newsby StaffAugust 16, 2024

Florida's PSTA Breaks Ground on New BRT Station

The Tampa Bay region’s first-of-its-kind bus rapid transit service runs along PSTA's most heavily used corridor and connects St. Pete Beach to Downtown St. Petersburg.

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Newsby StaffAugust 16, 2024

Ongoing Fiscal Challenges Push Milwaukee to Recommend Pausing BRT Project

The recommendation to pause the CONNECT 2 project will be considered by the board’s Transportation and Transit Committee in early September.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2024

California's AC Transit Expands Bus Lane Enforcement Program

The agency is expanding its use of automated cameras equipped with artificial intelligence after evaluating their effectiveness in detecting illegal stopping and parking at Tempo Line stations and bus only lanes.

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Newsby StaffJuly 30, 2024

San Diego's Zero Emissions Buses Hit 1M Mile Marker

The milestone, 1,021,990 miles, represents 2,130 metric tons of CO2e, or carbon dioxide equivalent, not being emitted into the region’s air.

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Newsby StaffJuly 30, 2024

Florida's PSTA Wins Excellence in Inclusive Collaboration Award

The APTA award recognizes PSTA for its collaboration with Jones Worley, an African American woman-owned disadvantaged business enterprise, and H.W. Lochner, the prime engineer of record for the project.

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Newsby StaffJuly 26, 2024

TransLink: Half of Transit Services Cut without New Funding

The agency is facing a funding gap of approximately $600 million each year — a shortfall in the budget to operate current transit service levels throughout the region.

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Newsby StaffJune 20, 2024

Houston METRO Will Not Pursue Fed Funding for BRT Project

Financial estimates for the project in 2019 were aspirational, but the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced ridership and increased costs — variables that were not calculated at the time the project was proposed, according to Houston METRO officials.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJune 4, 2024

PSTA Partners to Offer First-Ever Neighborhood Pass

Under the groundbreaking agreement, every resident can receive a UPASS, or Universal Pass, as a benefit of their neighborhood association membership at no additional cost to them.

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