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Newsby StaffSeptember 18, 2012

N.Y. MTA updates website

The biggest change to the website is the expanded TripPlanner utility. Without even leaving the homepage, MTA customers now can get access to features that have proven popular but have not been accessible from the homepage.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 11, 2012

S.F. MTA approves New Flyer hybrid order

Production of the 40-foot Xcelsior hybrid buses is anticipated to begin in early 2013 and will be manufactured and assembled bumper-to-bumper in New Flyer’s St. Cloud, Minn. manufacturing facility. All buses are expected to be delivered by the end of the summer 2013.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 5, 2012

San Francisco MTA to purchase New Flyer hybrids

Pending final approval from the board of supervisors, the SFMTA expects to have a prototype on the road next winter for a month long test in regular passenger service. All 45 new buses are expected to arrive by the end of summer 2013.

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Newsby StaffAugust 28, 2012

Md. MTA 'pace bus' to lead pre-race parade

The pace bus is one of 215 hybrid diesel-electric buses purchased by the MTA. That number will grow by 53 in the next year following Gov. Martin O’Malley’s approval of the purchase of additional hybrids and a commitment to convert the entire MTA fleet to hybrids.

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Newsby StaffAugust 27, 2012

N.Y. MTA submits $65M claim for Irene storm losses

FEMA has so far approved a total of 59 project worksheets systemwide totaling $28M from losses due to flood and wind damage to the regional transit infrastructure related to Tropical Storm Irene, which hit the region on August 28, 2011.

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Newsby StaffAugust 23, 2012

Md. MTA launches student pass program

There are about 36,000 Baltimore City public school students eligible for the S-Pass. The MTA is providing city schools with the S-Pass, lanyards and pouches, MTA-issued student identification and brochures explaining how the S-Pass works.

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Newsby StaffAugust 22, 2012

N.Y. subway work halted after blast goes awry

MTA officials said the area at the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Second Avenue was not equipped to handle the force of the blast, which sent debris flying into the street.

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Newsby StaffAugust 21, 2012

N.Y. MTA workers charged with faking signal inspections

According to prosecutors, dummy barcodes were allegedly stashed in one of the MTA worker's lockers to use in order to fabricate inspections instead of being affixed to signal equipment in order to ensure that the work is done.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2012

N.Y. Sen. asks MTA to create tech campus route

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is asking for a route that connects the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island with tech hubs in Queens and Brooklyn to accommodate New York’s tech boom.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2012

N.Y. MTA to issue RFP for Fulton Center lease

The master lessee will be tasked with handling leasing and operations of the structure as well as the historic Corbin Building, the Dey Street entrance and the attached concourse under Dey Street.

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