Mass Transit

IL: Connect Transit Looking to Fill New Positions in Next Six Months

Connect Transit General Manager Andrew Johnson hopes to have seven new positions approved by the board on Tuesday filled in six months.

News • May 30th, 2013

NY/NJ: Inspector Louis Koumoutsos Appointed Chief of the Port Authority PD

The Port Authoritys Chief Security Officer Joseph P. Dunne today announced the appointment of Inspector Louis Koumoutsos as Chief of Department of the nearly 1,600- member Port Authority Police Department.

News • May 30th, 2013

Port Authority Continues Aggressive Efforts to Rebuild Facilities Following Sandy

The Port Authority Board of Commissioners today moved to continue the agencys aggressive efforts to rebuild its facilities and to install additional storm preparedness measures by approving critical investments to safeguard the World Trade Center...

News • May 30th, 2013

NC: Transportation Organization Studies Big Change

The Cape Fear region's transportation planning organization took a step toward the greatest ever change in its organizational structure on Wednesday.

News • May 30th, 2013

NC: Parking, Bus Issues Focus of Early Budget Talks

Bus and parking-system fees are shaping up as major issues for the City Council to grapple before it completes work on the city's fiscal 2013-14 budget.

News • May 30th, 2013

MN: Multilingual Bike-Safety Campaign Gets Green Light

With bicycling season in high gear, Minneapolis is launching a campaign to remind motorists and bicyclists to share the road and be safe.

News • May 30th, 2013

MD: Gov. O'Malley Announces Jim Smith as Maryland Transportation Secretary

Governor Martin O'Malley today announced the appointment of James T. "Jim" Smith, Jr. as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

News • May 30th, 2013

CT: Metro-North Worker Hit by Train, Killed in West Haven

Though typically a source of city pride and excitement, the under-construction train station offered a solemn scene Tuesday after a Metro-North worker was fatally struck by a commuter train.

News • May 29th, 2013

Washington: MTA’s Buses Provide Shuttle Service for Metro-North Customers

There is a strong bond among the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s operating agencies and at no time was that more evident than the past several days when New York City Transit and MTA Bus deployed a fleet of 50 transit and express coaches as...

News • May 29th, 2013

FL: HART Debuts Faster Bus Service With Free Rides

Destany Mackey got to test ride HART's inaugural MetroRapid bus service Tuesday and if her experience is shared by others, the new brand vehicles will be the success the transit company has anticipated.

News • May 29th, 2013

VA: Panel Recommends Ending Council Control Over Routes

A Richmond City Council task force wants to let GRTC Transit System take the wheel in changing and managing bus routes in the city — ending council control of operational decisions for a transit system that relies on city financial support.

News • May 29th, 2013

GA: Downtown Transit Hub Suffers Setback

The decades-old dream of a transit hub downtown that would bring together commuter and freight rail, MARTA and longer-haul passenger buses appears to have suffered a significant blow.

News • May 29th, 2013

KS: Bicycle Racks to be Added to Rcat Buses this Summer

With approval Tuesday by the Reno County Commission, officials with Reno County Area Transit have ordered bicycle racks to go on all the county's transit route buses.

News • May 29th, 2013

IL: Connect Transit to Hold Open Houses on Proposed Route Changes

The public will have a chance to comment at three open houses on proposed route changes for Bloomington-Normal city buses.

News • May 29th, 2013

IL: Rating Finds CTA Ventra Changes Make Card More Viable

The answer to whether consumers should use the Ventra debit card that the CTA will introduce this summer "is no longer an out-and-out 'no,'" based on new reductions in service fees associated with the offer, a leading rating service said Tuesday.

News • May 29th, 2013

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