LIRR, Miami-Dade, and Houston Metro were top winners in safety category. DART, Sound Transit, and WMATA named tops in security.
As I write this, we are a few days away from another potential government shutdown if negotiations on border security are not hammered out.
During his campaign, the President called for spending $1.5 trillion over a decade for infrastructure projects, but major funding has not been forthcoming.
36% of agency members report the government shutdown is substantially impacting their operations and/or capital programs.
Achievements include, significantly increased ridership and launch of the nation’s leading reduced-fare program.
BBB has steadily decreased its preventable accident rate from 2.21 accidents per 100,000 miles in fiscal year 2015 to 1.83 accidents per 100,000 miles in FY 2017.
Only 3.6% of the TIGER grants that were recently announced went to public transit projects, representing a significant decrease in public transit TIGER grants.
"A strong federal investment in public transportation needs to be preserved and increased, not cut," says APTA President/CEO Skoutelas.
In a unanimous vote today, the board named Paul P. Skoutelas to serve as its new leader effective January 8, 2018.
The election of Mendes marks the first time in APTA’s 135-year history that the chair of the Legislative Committee is from a private-sector firm.
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