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The 100 new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) units are part of the agency’s new program, "Project Jumpstart.” The program is designed to save lives by utilizing early defibrillation if a customer or employee experiences sudden cardiac arrest.
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Highlights from the APTA Bus and Paratransit Conference general forum, which included presentations from Rick Ruddell, president/executive director of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority; Joyce Olson, CEO of Snohomish County (Wash.) Public Transportation Benefit Area Corp.; Kim Green, president of GFI Genfare; and Art Leahy, CEO of the Orange County (Calif.) Transportation Authority (OCTA).
Read More →John Andoh has been serving as the mass transit administrator for the past few months.
Read More →For fiscal year 2014, UNT towed 84 cars and TWU had 11 cars towed. From September 2013 to the end of August 2014, 579 cars were booted at the UNT campus, while only 25 were booted at TWU, which opts to heavily ticket instead.
Read More →Chicago Transit Authority opened the city’s first BRT line and the first of four planned routes, the Jeffery Jump, in November of last year.
Read More →Partnership advances each of their respective HSR programs, and could create efficiencies by ordering trains of similar specifications and develop a U.S. standard for HSR train equipment that can be manufactured and supplied domestically and produced for the rest of the world. An RFP could be issued by September, 2013 with an order placed during 2014.
Read More →In this episode of METROspectives, METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman sits down with Colin Parent, Executive Director and General Counsel at Circulate San Diego, to discuss his recent report, “The Powerless Brokers."
Read More →Recognizing employees and passengers as the "eyes and ears" of the transit system, the FTA has conceived the Transit Watch campaign to raise awareness and bolster safety in public transportation.
Read More →The number of train derailments—like the recent Amtrak accident in Iowa that killed one person and injured 96 others—increased by about 20% over the past four years.
Read More →Two-day workshops coordinated by Halsey King are scheduled for Texas, Washington, California and Pennsylvania.
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