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NewsJuly 31, 2020

SEPTA Launches Fund to Help Families of Employees Impacted by COVID-19

The SEPTA Disaster Relief Memorial Fund was launched in large part due to feedback from employees who wanted a way to help the spouses, children, and other loved ones of co-workers who have died or were severely ill.

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NewsJuly 31, 2020

TransLink Highlights Opportunities to Speed Metro Vancouver Buses

Staff have worked with municipalities to ensure the identified opportunities have considered local businesses and, are in many cases, win-wins for both transit and local retail areas.

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NewsJuly 29, 2020

APTA, CEOs Urge Congress to Provide Emergency Funding to Transit

APTA is urging Congress to invest at least $32 billion in additional emergency funding to keep systems running safely and to protect the jobs of more than 435,000 industry workers.

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NewsJuly 29, 2020

AECOM launches New Tech Platform to Support Transit’s Safe Return to Service

TRIPS integrates data and technologies for each point of the passenger’s journey — from helping individuals decide when and how to travel, to informing transit operators when stations or vehicles are nearing capacity.

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NewsJuly 28, 2020

Passio Introduces Contact Tracing Tool to Combat Pandemic

The new module works with existing passenger identification scanning systems to identify and alert transit operators which passengers may have been exposed to an infected fellow rider.

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PodcastsJuly 27, 2020

The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19 on Public Transit and its Ridership with Nicole Recker and Tom Ryden

Nicole Recker, VP of mobility services and administration at Texas’ DCTA, and Tom Ryden, senior project manager for LAN, join METRO's Alex Roman to discuss the implications for transit caused by the pandemic, how branding and messaging will play a part in ridership returning, much more.

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NewsJuly 27, 2020

DCTA's Recker, LAN's Ryden Join METROspectives Podcast

Nicole Recker and Tom Ryden discuss the long and short-term implications for transit caused by the pandemic, how branding and messaging will play a part in ridership returning, and much more.

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ArticlesJuly 27, 2020

How COVID-19 is Impacting Reno, Mobility with RTC's Thomas

The RTC of Washoe County's Executive Director discusses a multitude of topics, including what it's like starting on the job during the pandemic.

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ArticlesJuly 22, 2020

Suppliers Stepping Up Offerings to Help Transit Deal with ‘New Normal’

While agencies were hit particularly hard because of the pandemic, many suppliers, also deemed as “essential,” had to adjust to not only providing the goods and services they already offered, but also find ways to meet the new demands of their long-time partners.

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NewsJuly 22, 2020

SunLine Transit Introduces 'Ride with Confidence' Campaign

Since March of 2020, SunLine has followed a meticulous two-step cleaning and disinfecting procedure that includes fogging with a hospital-grade disinfectant through each bus’s HVAC operating system.

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