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Beginning in mid-December 2012, the Crowding Reduction Plan will add service to 48 bus routes, including the busiest and most crowded bus routes in the city, during peak times. It will also add 17 rail trips to the various lines during weekday rush periods.
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Per the bill, states can use less than 1 percent of emission allowances to fulfill matching requirements to receive federal funds for projects such as building new subway lines or acquiring new clean fuel buses.
Read More →The recent merger and acquisition activity among public transportation consulting firms partly reflects a discovery by Wall Street of something we in the industry have always known: today’s industry is on the upswing and may be worth some outside investments.
Read More →Competing contractor formally protests agency's choice.
Read More →Expanding storage capacity at the rail yard is a key component in delivering more frequent service that better serves existing, changing, and new travel markets, as outlined in the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan.
Read More →Agency is emphasizing innovation and the ability to change company culture in its next leader, and will interview three finalists next week. Since John Catoe’s resignation last April, the agency has not had a permanent general manager.
Read More →As policymakers look for alternatives to the recent one percent transportation sales tax referendum failure, Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies found that drivers prefer taxes in smaller doses.
Read More →While making all public transport free for the day does help in reducing pollution from gas emissions, the union estimates that the loss of profit adds up to approximately $4.2 million per day for the region.
Read More →Despite the bus system being equipped with ramps and low-floor access for wheelchair users, critics have complained that drivers have refused to pick them up.
Read More →Tunnel Vision, the iOS app, enables users to see which stations are likely to be the most crowded and view where in the system their train theoretically is.
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