Mass Transit

CA: Wi-Fi Zapped From Golden Gate Transit Buses

Golden Gate Transit officials pulled the plug on Wi-Fi on 120 buses last week, saying the technology simply didn't work well, partly because of Marin's hilly topography.

News • April 15th, 2013

WA: STA Unveils Plans to Fix Crowded Corridors

Spokane Transit Authority last week unveiled a series of concepts to improve public transportation in future years.

News • April 15th, 2013

WA: Kitsap Transit, Bremerton Negotiating Convention Space in Harborside Building

Kitsap Transit could ink a deal Tuesday to provide added conference space to the city.

News • April 15th, 2013

NC: Charlotte City Council Mulls Property Tax Hikes to Pay for Big Projects

After a nearly yearlong deadlock over a capital budget, the Charlotte City Council has tentatively endorsed a plan to raise property taxes and ask voters to approve $800 million in projects.

News • April 15th, 2013

Canada: Municipalities Big Winners with Federal Budget

The community improvement fund will provide over $32 billion to municipalities for projects such as roads, public transit and recreational facilities.

News • April 15th, 2013

CA: Feds Allocate $19.3M for Defunct Port Sonoma Ferry Service Plan

It took a mysterious act of Congress to get $20 million in federal funds earmarked for controversial ferry service at Port Sonoma Marina. And it will take an act of Congress to get rid of it.

News • April 15th, 2013

CA: Jerry Brown Seeks Chinese Investors for HSR

The 5:38 p.m. bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai hurtled through the exurbs of the Chinese capital on Thursday, and in the No. 4 car stood Gov. Jerry Brown, leaning on a seat back and peering outside for inspiration.

News • April 12th, 2013

NY: Woodbury Couple to Sue LIRR Over 30 Cut Trees

Joe and Carol Berardino say the Long Island Rail Road owes them 30 trees.

News • April 12th, 2013

ME: All Citylink Buses Now Under Video Scrutiny

Drivers and passengers are under equal surveillance when they ride Citylink buses. Members of the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee got a demonstration Thursday of how the system's video cameras work and what they are meant to do.

News • April 12th, 2013

PA: Pennsauken Train Station Nears Completion

Workers are nearing completion of a $36 million, multilevel Pennsauken train station to connect the Atlantic City Line and the River Line, and passengers are expected to be able to use it by fall.

News • April 12th, 2013

US: Obama Ducks Transportation Pay-Fors

President Barack Obama's new budget for transportation is as ambitious as it is unachievable and indicates the White House has little appetite this year for engaging in the usual bloodsport of finding new revenues for transportation.

News • April 12th, 2013

Penn Station Plan Adds Pedestrian Plaza on 33rd St.

Penn Station's future could include turning 33rd Street into a pedestrian plaza and opening up sidewalk skylights to let daylight into the underground train terminal used by 220,000 Long Island Rail Road riders each day.

News • April 12th, 2013

CA: BART Extension to San Jose: Heavy Lifting About to Begin

After a year of moving utility lines, knocking down old buildings and reconfiguring roads, the digging to extend BART to the South Bay is about to begin in earnest.

News • April 12th, 2013

NY: Tax Break for Farmingdale Project on Table

Nassau County is to consider granting a 20-year property tax break for the $28 million first phase of a mixed-use, transit-oriented development planned in downtown Farmingdale.

News • April 12th, 2013

MA: 'Runaway' Costs on Rail & T

The state's taxpayer-funded commuter rail service is lavishing extravagant raises, "signing" bonuses and other plum perks on its engineers and conductors, according to a scathing new report that also slams the debt-ridden MBTA for its own "excessive...

News • April 12th, 2013

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