Over the years, Tri-Rail trains have been the scene for holiday parties, wedding and baby showers, and even Thanksgiving dinners.
As the system nears the third anniversary of passenger service along the H/Benning corridor, plans to expand the 2.4 mile system continue to move forward.
The coach was delivered during a ceremony at UMA Expo to DC Trails Owner Bill Torres and his wife Liliana.
In keeping with VIA’s ongoing commitment to support local, small, and minority-owned businesses, nearly all of the contracts awarded for VIA’s Passenger Amenities Program went to locally-owned businesses and/or certified DBEs/SBEs.
The 2,500th bus manufactured by the company is part of a 123 bus contract that was awarded in February of this year.
Will provide service from 96th Street to 63rd Street and serve more than 200,000 people per day, reducing overcrowding on the Lexington Avenue Line and restoring a transit link to a neighborhood that lost the Second Avenue elevated subways in 1940.
Inaugural ride will take place on New Year's Eve, with revenue service beginning at noon on January 1st.
Debuting June 14, 1996 with an 11-mile network, DART Rail today is 90 miles long and has 62 stations in eight cities.
The milestone was reached exactly two months after the app was launched by Metra, the Chicago Transit Authority and Pace.
