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  • Federal Officials Say They Will Narrow List Of Rail Options In Next Few Months

    Depending on choices that federal transportation officials make over the next two years, Hartford, Bridgeport, Stamford and New Haven could eventually be in the heart of a new high-speed Boston-to-Washington rail route

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • MI: BATA Hopes to Save Routes Used by Minority Students in Suttons Bay

    Bay Area Transportation Authority officials hope to convince federal regulators to rethink a cease-and-desist order that could eliminate bus routes many Suttons Bay students, a majority of whom are minorities, ride to school

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • SC: PDRTA to Cease Being on Demand

    Costs of the demand response transportation service were traditionally covered by Medicaid transportation work, but the PDRTA board has cancelled the agency's contracts to provide Medicaid and social service agency transportation service in its...

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • GA: Macon Transit Worker Who Complained About Gun Brought to Office is Fired

    A Macon woman says she was fired from the Macon Transit Authority Tuesday because of her reaction to a supervisor's bringing a shotgun into the office

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • MA: Contamination Costs Deemed Low

    With fears of on-site contamination subsiding, the Board of Selectmen supported rezoning the Town Yard for mixed-use development

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • ME: Councilors Favor Walkable Street Plan

    Councilors voiced their support Tuesday of a policy aimed at making Twin Cities streets more friendly to pedestrians, bicyclists and wheelchair users

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • California High-Speed Rail Costs Soar Again — This time Just for Planning

    While much of the squabbling over California's high-speed rail project has focused on its huge construction price tag, the cost to taxpayers just to plan the bullet train is also soaring

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • ON: City Facing Lawsuits After Transit Crash

    The city and its transit service are facing a pair of $2-million lawsuits filed by passengers aboard a bus involved in a high-speed collision with another bus last summer. The lawsuits were filed in mid-December on behalf of passengers Craig Perrie...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • MA: Opponents Try to Derail $850M South Station Expansion Plan

    April 01--Despite being in its "infancy," a proposed $850 million expansion of South Station raised warning flags today from concerned locals who say a rail link between the more than 100-year-old station and North Station would better solve lingering...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • WA: Without Taxes, Metro Warns of Big Cuts

    April 02--King County Metro Transit says it might remove 65 bus routes and reduce trips on 86 more, unless the state Legislature allows the county to collect new taxes. Pain would be spread from Lake Forest Park at the north county line to Federal...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • TX: Fort Worth May Back Split Plan for Cotton Belt Rail Line

    April 02--More than a month after rejecting development of the Cotton Belt line, Fort Worth officials say they are willing to support the 62-mile commuter rail project as long as it doesn't sidetrack federal money they want to be spent for a rail line...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • SEPTA Powerball Winner Accused of Threatening Police Official

    April 02--ONE MIGHT think Joseph C. Byrd would be flying high right about now, given that he was one of 48 SEPTA employees who won a $172.7 million Powerball jackpot last April. Think again. Byrd, 44, of West Philadelphia, allegedly ran amok at...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • IL: Coalition Urges New Funding for State Road Projects

    April 02--O'FALLON -- The state's surmounting debt is blocking the way for many transportation projects, lawmakers and building advocates said Monday. The Transportation for Illinois Coalition is visiting communities across the state and hosting...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • CA: Julian Burke Dies at 85; Former MTA Chief

    Julian Burke, a corporate turnaround expert who brought a steady hand and political savvy to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority when it was teetering financially and facing federal scrutiny for poor bus service across Los Angeles County, died...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

  • KC, NKC to consider how to get streetcars across river into Northland

    April 02--One of the biggest obstacles to extending Kansas City's starter streetcar system into the Northland is the problem of how to cross the Missouri River. Leaders in North Kansas City and Kansas City are considering an agreement this week that...

    News • April 2nd, 2013

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