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  • NY: MTA Police Probe LIRR 'Train Surfer'

    MTA police are investigating an eyewitness' report of a man riding on top of a Long Island Rail Road train car in Queens Sunday afternoon.

    News • April 15th, 2013

  • WA: City of Yakima Has Paid Out $130,000 in Claims This Year

    In the first three months of 2013, Yakima and its insurers paid out about $130,000 to settle 10 claims, and closed another 27 claims without having to pay anything, according to the city's quarterly claims report, which will be submitted to the Yakima...

    News • April 15th, 2013

  • WA: C-Tran at a Crossroads Over Light Rail

    Should C-Tran stay the course on the Columbia River Crossing, and find a way to pay the local cost of operating light rail in Vancouver? C-Tran board members tackled that question during an afternoonlong workshop meeting Saturday.

    News • April 15th, 2013

  • PA: Electric Bus Charges Up BARTA

    BARTA already has ordered two electric paratransit buses, the shorter buses that run door-to-door service rather than fixed routes, that will be outfitted with a wireless charging device Momentum developed. The BARTA buses will be the first field test...

    News • April 15th, 2013

  • 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

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