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Nearly $20 million of these savings will be immediately available to fund public safety infrastructure improvements for Metro system. .
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Also launching is the CTA Budget Ideas Board — an online feedback forum for the proposed 2012 budget — and the new CTA Updates, a subscription text/email service for customers to receive alerts on any unplanned events affecting service.
Read More →The first project going to bid, which has been allocated $16 million in ARRA funding, will directly improve vehicle availability, service reliability and performance by rehabilitating approximately 40 standard and 20 articulated Muni buses.
Read More →No planned service restoration or cuts. The agency continues to face financial hurdles and uncertainty, but expects some breathing room due to an arbitrator’s selection of management’s labor contract proposal. Additionally, the agency continues to invest in new buses as they are cheaper to maintain and provide a better ride for customers.
Read More →Significant technological improvements have reduced the negative environmental impact of in-ground lifts. Types of lift designs available include multi-post runway, mobile, parallelogram, scissor, in-ground and surface-mounted.
Read More →Successes shared included using Twitter to gather community feedback on a new hire; as a backup to the website to disseminate service updates; and encouraging riders to tweet photos on trains and buses to help draw attention to maintenance issues.
Read More →Five new Gillig 40-foot low-floor diesel-electric hybrid buses, which entered service in mid-April, are expected to deliver 30 percent fuel savings. The vehicles feature beltless alternators, where the electrical system pulls power from the hybrid batteries, and independent alternators feed power to the air-conditioning systems.
Read More →The Tier 1 Draft EIS includes alternative visions for investment in the NEC. The visions range from maintaining the current level of investment and service to significant investment that would dramatically increase rail’s role in transportation for the Northeast.
Read More →Effective immediately, Amtrak president/CEO Wick Moorman reduced by half the senior management team into six direct reports.
Read More →The budget builds on VIA’s accelerated vision for enhancing transit service and organizational performance, focusing on what riders value most: more frequent service, safer journeys, and improved access to opportunities.
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