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With the launch of the South Coast Rail passenger service, the communities of Taunton, Freetown, New Bedford, Middleboro, and Fall River will have passenger rail service for the first time in 65 years.
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In December, DART's board of directors approved spending $1.7 million for 30 additional security guards, provided by contract with Walden Security, and has almost completed its first install of 48 security cameras.
Read More →The City of Phoenix was very surprised to see METRO Magazine’s article entitled "Arizona Begins Maglev" in the January 2000 issue.
Read More →But rising cost of construction materials and shortage of skilled laborers are making it hard for CATS to stay within its $427 million budget for the 10-mile line.
Read More →Nominations are evaluated on four criteria: effectiveness, benefit level, innovation, and transferability.
Read More →Will maintain 75 passenger cars on the “Caledonian Sleeper” trains, one of only two sleeper services in the UK. Alstom has been providing maintenance services for the “Caledonian Sleeper” trains for more than a decade.
Read More →Police say media and social-media images of passengers walking the tracks of SkyTrain after bailing on cars stalled between stations last month have convinced some passengers they can just exit during short, routine delays.
Read More →The agency is set to move forward with several projects, including the recently opened BRT system, an 11-mile light rail system set to launch in mid-2014, and an ambitious decade-long project that will convert Metro’s highest ridership bus routes into rapid bus service corridors.
Read More →To carry a passenger a mile on the streetcar, the CATS projects it will cost $1.58 in 2019, when the second phase of the project would open. For comparison, in 2012, it cost the agency 77 cents to move a bus passenger one mile. A Lynx Blue Line passenger’s 1-mile trip was 68 cents.
Read More →The Tide opened to the public on Friday to long lines of excited patrons who arrived at stations one-half hour before the 6 a.m. start of service. Long lines at many stations persisted throughout the day as customers waited for a chance to ride Virginia’s first light rail line.
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