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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. The board's budget committee on Thursday proposed deferring until June any action on the $1.3 billion operating budget, which funds regular transit operations, and on the $308 million capital budget, which pays for major construction and vehicle purchases. Even with the fare increases slated for July, the fiscal 2014...
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  • 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

  • NY: PATH/Fail: The Story of the World's Most Expensive Train Station

    At $3.74 billion, plus another $200 million in contingencies, the "Transportation Hub" at the World Trade Center-not even the busiest station in the Financial District-will be far and away the most expensive train station built in modern history.

    News • May 16th, 2013

  • IL: Transit Agencies Look to Keep South Side Moving During CTA Work

    The time for campaigning is about to end. Now the hard work — delivering on promises made to 80,000 daily CTA Red Line customers who will lose a vital transportation lifeline for five months— is set to begin Sunday.

    News • May 16th, 2013

  • CA: Alhambra Declares '710 Day,' Reaffirms Support for Freeway Extension

    Proclaiming July 10 as "710 Day" in the city, Alhambra reaffirmed its support for a controversial tunnel that would connect the Long Beach and Foothill freeways.

    News • May 16th, 2013

  • PA: SEPTA to slightly reduce planned fare hikes

    SEPTA may slightly reduce its fare hike and allow more rides on passes under changes offered to its planned overhaul of the fare-collection system.

    News • May 16th, 2013

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