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The app, which was developed with Bytemark Inc., has built-in security features. Customers may be asked to validate their purchase by tapping the screen, causing the background color of the pass to change.
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Compared motorcoach travel to travel by private automobiles, heavy urban rail, light rail, urban transit bus, TNCs, and more.
Read More →Signed an agreement to finalize the sale of the San Diego Trolley U-2 model light rail transit vehicles for $5.1 million. MTS is more than halfway through a program to replace the cars with new low-floor vehicles, manufactured by Siemens.
Read More →Needing a simple majority to pass, the measure was defeated 54 percent to 46 percent and would have raised about $30 million a year to further subsidize the public transit system.
Read More →There are now twin tunnels running 3.1 miles between downtown Seattle and the University of Washington. The contractor team, JCM U-Link Joint Venture, mined two tunnels about a mile long between the site of the future Capitol Hill Station and downtown Seattle. The project is about halfway complete and scheduled to open in 2016.
Read More →The 1946 Presidents Conference Committee car will be restored for service on the San Diego Vintage Trolley’s Silver Line. San Diego MTS acquired it as part of a trade with the United Transportation Corp./Rail Air Sources, in exchange for two of the transit agency’s decommissioned Siemens U-2 light rail vehicles.
Read More →President William A. Millar called on Congressional leaders to pass a well-funded six-year multimodal surface transportation bill, and eliminate burdensome requirements and approval processes in the New Starts program.
Read More →Transportation officials said students can expect to a see a drop in bus-service hours, elimination of underutilized routes and other modifications if the referendum does not pass.
Read More →The FTA Small Starts program will fund a wide array of new transit projects, including five proposed BRT systems. Hybrid-electric and clean diesel vehicles are leading choices for propulsion systems.
Read More →The work was done at the CCW North facility in Alameda, Calif., with CCW providing transportation of the buses from SF Muni to Alameda to begin their upfitting.
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