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Newsby StaffSeptember 8, 2011

Toronto Transit names chief operating officer

Andy Byford will become the TTC’s first chief operating officer. Byford will join the TTC in November from Sydney, Australia where he was COO of RailCorp.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 2, 2011

AECOM receives $35.5M Edmonton light rail contract

Under the contract, the company will provide preliminary engineering design services for the Southeast LRT line from downtown Edmonton to Mill Woods and the West LRT line from Lewis Estates to downtown Edmonton.

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Newsby StaffAugust 25, 2011

TTC may ban criminals who assaulted transit workers

After a guard was attacked for asking a man to stop walking between the train cars, the agency is pushing for bans on riders charged and convicted for violent attacks on the transit system.

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Newsby StaffAugust 25, 2011

Amtrak service from Seattle to Vancouver to continue

The train began as a pilot project in 2009 in preparation for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, but with CBSA reluctant to pay the extra cost of border clearance services late into the night, the service was in limbo.

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Newsby StaffAugust 9, 2011

BEA Transit wins $1.4M Canadian smart-card contract

The Lethbridge system will include onboard fareboxes and smart card readers; central fare processing equipment; and all communications, hardware and software required. BEA will also provide all on-site training and installation services as part of the contract.

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Newsby StaffJuly 26, 2011

Man who attacked Edmonton bus driver jailed indefinitely

The man pleaded guilty in May 2010 to aggravated assault for punching the driver in the face, pulling him off the bus and stomping his face 15 times during the morning rush hour on Dec. 3, 2009.

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Newsby StaffJuly 25, 2011

Canadian public transit ridership up

Increase of 4.1 percent nationally over the previous year, represents an all-time record with 1.9 billion trips taken.

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Newsby StaffJuly 20, 2011

Toronto makes heart defibrillators available at rail stations

Agency partnered with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion, and their partners, to provide at least one device at all 69 stations. Combined with platform paramedics on duty during rush hours, the TTC is helping to fast-track potentially life-saving response and treatment to more than 800,000 daily subway riders.

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Newsby StaffJuly 15, 2011

Ottawa warns transit users about Twitter impostors

The agency claims that two Twitter accounts publishing updates on bus cancellations based on data pulled directly from OC Transpo’s website are unreliable. The agency does not have a Twitter account.

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Newsby StaffJuly 11, 2011

Toronto Transit debuts real-time arrival information

Allows transit customers to receive information on when the next buses — up to six succeeding — will arrive at any specific bus stop. Next-vehicle information is available for more than 9,300 TTC bus stops inside Toronto.

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