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More than four of five campuses (83 percent) reported posting transit system maps or schedules on their websites. Slightly more than one in 10 (11 percent) use bus wraps to help advertise the school’s bus program.
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The three-year agreement is the first-ever multi-year sponsorship of the Chicago Transit Authority’s First Day of School Free Rides program. Sun-Times Media is contributing more than $150,000 to the program, designed to promote first-day attendance for Chicago Public School elementary and high school students.
Read More →Students will have the option to rent vehicles on campus by the hour. The program is expected to primarily help students who did not bring cars to campus, need to shop or run errands off-campus, or have older cars that may not get good gas mileage.
Read More →Record enrollment of freshmen, most of whom are required to live on campus, will push other students off-campus, forcing them to commute. University officials are looking for ways to encourage students not to bring their cars to campus and to take the bus instead.
Read More →Measure KK would have required voter approval before bus-only lanes could be built on streets in Berkeley, Calf.
Read More →The agency will resume senior transit operations after Heartland Senior Services discontinued its contract with the agency, in order to deal with budget deficits caused by substantially rising food and fuel costs.
Read More →Transit riders can save on average $762 per month. The savings amount is based on the cost of the national averages for parking and driving, as well as the September 3 national average gas price of $2.596 per gallon for self-serve regular gasoline as reported by AAA.
Read More →The order, valued at approximately $639 million, is part of a total order of 775 cars. The new cars feature improvements based on input from San Francisco Bay Area riders, such as a reconfigured interior layout designed to maximize seating, openness and comfort; and more priority seating for seniors and people with disabilities.
Read More →The DAS system gives trams drivers advanced warning of a potential impact with pedestrians, bikers, other vehicles, or objects obstructing the tram tracks.
Read More →The fully accessible fleet means not only passengers in wheelchairs, but elderly transit riders, injured men and women on crutches, and people pushing strollers will easily be able to board a bus without relying on assistance from the driver or struggling up stairs.
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