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Newsby StaffJuly 8, 2024

Mineta Report Examines Building Equity into VMT Mitigation Program

The proposed program would provide a VMT mitigation option for local government agencies and developers, which would improve travel options for the community with an emphasis on cross-jurisdictional collaboration and equity.

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Newsby StaffJune 26, 2024

Toronto Introduces Anti-Racism Strategy

Shaped by feedback and guidance of members of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities, the strategy aims to eradicate systemic barriers faced by customers and the broader community that stem from racism and racial discrimination.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJune 11, 2024

Boston MBTA's Board Approves FY25-29 Capital Investment Plan

The FY25-29 MBTA CIP includes over 640 unique capital projects to modernize, expand, and increase the safety and reliability of the MBTA transit network with a programmed spend of $9.6 billion over the next five fiscal years, including $843 million in new funding.

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Articlesby Alex RomanApril 29, 2024

Burns Engineering's Payne Talks Passenger Rail and More

METRO Magazine sat down with Payne to discuss challenges facing transit projects, alternative project delivery, high-speed rail, and much more.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseApril 26, 2024

Report: Bold Investment in Affordable Homes Needed Along Maryland’s Purple Line

With the Purple line expected to open in 2027 and rents already rising along the corridor, the study estimates a $740 million investment is needed to preserve affordability and ensure housing stability for communities along the Purple Line now and into the future.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschMarch 19, 2024

Moving from Traditional to Modernized Transit

Thought leader and 21-time best-selling author Seth Godin recently shared in his daily blog a sentence that captured our attention “more and better aren't the same…" Indeed, and the space between more and better is the state of the public transit industry’s crossroad.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 15, 2024

New Report Examines Racial/Ethnic, Gender Diversity in Transit

The Mineta Transportation Institute's study concludes that the transit workforce is not representative of the U.S. labor force in terms of either sex or race/ethnicity.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 13, 2024

Locally-Led California Projects Land $236M to Reconnect Communities

The funding is aimed at reconnecting communities cut off by transportation infrastructure decades ago, leaving entire neighborhoods without direct access to opportunity, like schools, jobs, medical offices, and places of worship.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 8, 2024

SacRT Launches Development of First Mobility Hubs

The SacRT Mobility Hub Implementation Plan will be a community-driven approach to identify and site which of SacRT’s light rail stations should be prioritized for inclusion in the Sacramento Region’s 52 mobility hubs.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsFebruary 27, 2024

New York Details Projects at Risk Due to Congestion Pricing Lawsuits

Without the funding Congestion Pricing will provide, the projects to make the transit system safer, more reliable, accessible, and equitable are at risk, according to the MTA.

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