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The funds secured in the agreement were a portion of the May 2011 award, which was the re-allocation of funding from Florida. This amends a previous agreement signed in December 2010.
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The Sacramento Regional Transit District (RTD) reduced its daily student fare following several articles in the Sacramento Bee deeming the fares too high.
Read More →The entry space on its FasTracks commuter-railcar will be increased by a foot to prevent wheelchairs from becoming stuck in the space as cars prepare to leave the station.
Read More →The service will go idle Friday in the wake of the program losing $24,000 through Title III of the Older Americans Act, which accounted for 18% of the service's $129,000 operating budget.
Read More →It has been more than 20 years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and many transit agencies continue to struggle with the quality of service, costs and the difficulties encountered in contracting the service. One of the most basic policy decisions an agency must make involves whether to provide door-to-door, or only curb-to-curb service.
Read More →Proposal comes in $100 million under last year’s funding levels. APTA disapproves.
Read More →Under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant funding competition, EPA said it anticipates making four to 10 awards in each of EPA’s ten regions to eligible applicants.
Read More →In the first two articles of this series, I discussed what can be done to make public transit Americans’ first choice for getting around. I also shared how transit agencies can be effective with the windfall from the CARES Act and the bipartisan infrastructure deal. A common thread between these two ideas is the assistance provided by private industry — particularly transit operators like Keolis.
Read More →People do not just want social distancing on trains and hand sanitizers. They want control — and they want it every step of the way.
Read More →State will fund purchase of hybrid and CNG buses for non-NYC transit agencies.
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