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CT: Trains Collide During Friday Evening Commute, 60 Land in Hospital
Investigators say there is no reason to believe it was anything other than an accident. Fairfield Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Governor Dannel Malloy said. About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Station to New Haven derailed around 6.10 pm just outside Bridgeport, officials...
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  • CT: Trains Collide During Friday Evening Commute, 60 Land in Hospital

    Fairfield Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Governor Dannel Malloy said.

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • MA: Injured T Cop: 'We Got the Job Done'

    The possibility that transit officer Richard "Dic" Donohue Jr. was accidentally shot by another police officer in the wild Watertown gunbattle that left him bleeding from a near-fatal femoral artery wound doesn't faze him, the recovering T cop said...

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • IL: Concealed Carry; Senate Panel OKs Restrictive Bill

    A Chicago Democrat ’s restrictive concealed-carry legislation made it through a Senate committee Thursday, with opponents vowing again to fight its passage.

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • VA: Tide at a Crossroads as Virginia Beach Nears Decision

    The once-abstract idea of light rail in the city continues to take shape as planners crunch the numbers and take public comment on the most detailed scenarios yet for sending The Tide to the Oceanfront.

    News • May 20th, 2013

  • 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

  • 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: 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

  • 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

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