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The new efficiencies in service that automatic vehicle location brings are being extended into transit yard operations using systems that can provide very accurate vehicle location through covered parking garages and maintenance facilities.
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Customers using the mobile website also can get quick access to Metro Transit videos on YouTube and the agency's Twitter feed.
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As unemployment numbers grow in the midst of the recession, transit ridership numbers have dipped. To help boost ridership, transit agencies are developing marketing campaigns and promotions, partnering with local businesses and sports teams, and implementing employee discount programs, with much success.
Read More →The clash stems from two recent incidents, which ended up in arbitration following the disciplining of drivers.
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Although riders are happy with the service, ridership is running about 5 percent below projections, which is expected to worsen to as much as 15 to 20 percent below projections for the rest of this year.
Read More →Points accrue on Metro Transit and suburban transit providers alike. Points can be converted to ride value or redeemed for gift cards that can be used like cash. To earn points faster, program members can link a favorite credit or debit card to their Ride to Rewards account and earn points for purchases made at merchant partners.
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Program aimed at fostering positive labor relations and heightened employee morale. Metro Transit recently added the names of individual employees' children, grandchildren, and other special children in their lives to 20 fixed-route buses.
Read More →The contract, which must still be considered by the Transit and Parking Commission and City Council, is worth $2.23 million for 2010 through 2012, plus two option years.
Read More →Metro Transit said it has has leased a locomotive from the Utah Transit Authority. The locomotive, which will be the sixth in the Northstar fleet, currently is en route to the Big Lake, Minn., maintenance base. It will enhance long-term service reliability and ease maintenance pressures.
Read More →Assuming morning riders return home this afternoon, first-day totals will reach 2,414 rides, 70 percent of average weekday ridership expected during the first year.
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