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Winners of the State competition may go on to represent their agency at the APTA International Maintenance Roadeo Competition to be held in Cleveland, Ohio in May 2010.
Read More →Winner created a high-quality video, which depicts a familiar scene of a woman dumping a significant other. In this scene, however, she is leaving the gas pump behind for a more attractive suitor — her local public transit system.
Read More →MVTA won American Seating's "Ticket to Ride" promotion at the APTA Exposition in October 2008 and previously used some of the money for a promotion in connection with "Read and Ride Day" at the Minnesota State Fair.
Read More →Over the last year, an individual riding public transportation would have saved an additional $255 due to the 41 cent increase of gasoline per gallon since November 2008, the report found.
Read More →Colorado, Michigan, Maine and Ohio passed pro-transit initiatives.
Read More →The programs will feature practitioners from HSR systems around the world and focus on best practices and lessons learned from European and Asian systems. The curriculum will be tailored to the different issues in each city.
Read More →For every $1 billion invested in public transportation capital and operations, an average of 36,000 jobs are supported. These jobs result in roughly $3.6 billion of business sales and generate nearly $500 million in federal, state and local tax revenues.
Read More →Transit riders can save on average $755 per month. The savings amount is based on the cost of the national averages for parking and driving, as well as, the October 5 national average gas price of $2.461 per gallon for self-serve regular gasoline as reported by AAA.
Read More →The "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" introduced by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) this week potentially offers important new funding to expand access to public transportation.
Read More →D.C. Metro GM, John B. Catoe, Jr. received the Outstanding Public Transportation Manager Award, which is given to a public transportation manager who has made outstanding contributions to the public transportation industry.
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