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IL: CTA Braces for 1st Workday of Red Line Closure on South Side
Marie Drake was already displeased Sunday morning when she boarded a free shuttle bus near the 63rd Street Red Line station. The Chicago Transit Authority, she said, hadn't done enough to explain the five-month shutdown of the Red Line's Dan Ryan branch that had started just hours earlier. Drake's frustration grew when she asked her bus driver whether the shuttles would operate overnight. "It's new to me too," the driver said. "Ask a supervisor." "They should have got you better...
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  • IL: CTA Braces for 1st Workday of Red Line Closure on South Side

    Marie Drake was already displeased Sunday morning when she boarded a free shuttle bus near the 63rd Street Red Line station. The Chicago Transit Authority, she said, hadn't done enough to explain the five-month shutdown of the Red Line's Dan Ryan...

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • PA: Wabash Tunnel Hours to be Restricted

    The Wabash Tunnel will be off limits to motorists during overnight hours when it reopens early next month, officials said, partly because of drunken drivers.

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • PA: Planning for Heavy Traffic in Gettysburg

    Every summer, tourists come to Gettysburg in their cars, trucks and vans, causing congestion on area roads. Richard Farr, executive director of rabbittransit, said the transportation company partnered with several agencies more than a year ago to...

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • MD: Capital Area Commuters Increasingly Relying on Transit

    More capital-area workers are ditching their cars and taking transit to commute, according to a study of regional commuter patterns released Wednesday.

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • PA: SEPTA Delays Budget Votes, Hoping for Help

    Hoping for more money from the state, the SEPTA board is postponing action on its budgets for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Fare increases are still expected on that date.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • GA: Two Council Members Walk Out of Macon Budget Hearings Over Gun Incident

    The Macon Transit Authority is seeking a $151,000 increase to last year's $1.6 million in city funding, partly to give drivers of its route buses and paratransit service a pay raise. But that request went unheard by two members of the City Council's...

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • WI: Cost Minimized to Move Utilities for Streetcar, Milwaukee City Engineer Says

    The city's chief engineer says design consultants have been able to minimize the impact relocating utility lines would have on a proposed Milwaukee streetcar project.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • NC: Local Officials Critique McCrory Transportation Plan

    Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed revamp of statewide transportation spending appears likely to continue to shortchange urban areas and may make it difficult for Wake County to finance its portion of a regional transit system, local officials say.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • MN: Hiawatha Light-Rail Name to be Phased Out for Blue Line

    The name isn't likely to leave riders' lips any time soon, but starting Friday the light-rail line that runs from downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of America won't be called the Hiawatha Line.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • MD: MARC to Add Weekend Service to Washington

    Maryland's MARC commuter trains, which have always operated Monday through Friday, will begin offering weekend service between Baltimore and Washington on the Penn Line in coming months.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • PA: Transit Officials Look to Future Service Improvements

    County planners and BARTA officials met with a small group of private and nonprofit transportation providers earlier this month to figure out how public and private transportation services in Berks could better serve the community.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • PDRTA Budget Still in Flux

    The Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority is easily beginning the toughest budget season of its existence as it fights to stay alive to serve the roughly 20,000 monthly riders it transports.

    News • May 17th, 2013

  • PA: Baby Rescued from SEPTA Train Tracks

    A 14-month-old girl was rescued by her mother and another commuter Wednesday afternoon after the stroller the child was in rolled onto the tracks of SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line at the 56th Street station, transit officials said.

    News • May 16th, 2013

  • UK: Trains Cancelled After Man Killed on Rail Track

    A Man was was killed when he was hit by a train near Worle station on Tuesday.

    News • May 16th, 2013

  • India: Bus Mows Down Four in UP

    Four people were killed and four others injured in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki town Thursday when a speeding state roadways bus rammed into an auto-rickshaw packed with devotees on their way to the Deva Shareef shrine.

    News • May 16th, 2013

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