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  • PA: SEPTA Engineers Resist Wearing Fluorescent Vests

    SEPTA rail engineers, who have long resisted pressure to wear uniforms, are protesting a new requirement that they wear fluorescent green-yellow vests when operating trains.

    News • May 26th, 2011

  • MN: Second Metro Transit Bus Sex Assault is Linked to Man

    A man sentenced last week for the sexual assault of a woman with Down syndrome on a city bus has been linked to another sexual assault of a vulnerable adult, police said Tuesday.

    News • May 26th, 2011

  • Utah: Controversial UTA Board Member Diehl Resigns

    Controversial Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl announced Wednesday that he is resigning under pressure -- and the board gave him a parting gift by waiving for him a normal yearlong ban against former members doing business with the agency.

    News • May 26th, 2011

  • DC: Police Seek Four Men in Metro Carjackings

    Police are searching for four men who they believe robbed, then carjacked a father and daughter inside Metros Largo Town Center parking garage Wednesday morning, shooting the woman and clobbering her dad on the head.

    News • May 26th, 2011

  • Bomb Explosion on Train in Central Myanmar Kills Two

    A bomb exploded on a passenger train in central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing two passengers and injuring nine others, state media reported Thursday.

    News • May 25th, 2011

  • CA: AC Transit to Avoid Service Cuts After All

    AC Transit won't need to cut bus service after all in the coming fiscal year because its bleak financial condition has improved, transit system operators declared Monday.

    News • May 25th, 2011

  • Ohen Announces More Than $1 Million for 10 New Paratransit Vans in Memphis

    Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the Memphis Area Transit Authority will receive $1,056,000 to purchase 10 paratransit vans to replace 10 2002 BlueBird buses that have met their useful life. The funds are being made available through...

    News • May 25th, 2011

  • FL: PSTA Fires Bus Drivers Over Time-Off Requests

    Four bus drivers were fired within the last week after the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority accused them of falsifying requests for time off.

    News • May 25th, 2011

  • DC: Metro Looking at Changing Station Names

    The transit agency is planning to review its naming policy this week and ask that alternative names to the long, tongue-tiers be submitted by Aug. 1. Riders may even get to have some input.

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • Muni Contract Battle Could Snag Federal Funds for Subway

    The labor union representing Muni operators is asking the federal government to withhold billions in funding for the Central Subway and other projects if the Municipal Transportation Agency follows the dictates of Proposition G in bargaining a new...

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • BART Eyes Tax Election to Pay for New Rail Cars

    BART plans to ask voters in Contra Costa, Alameda and San Francisco counties to approve a parcel tax to raise $900 million to $1 billion to replace its aging train cars.

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • US: Many States Turning Back Rail Funding

    When historians look back at the six months following the November 2010 elections, they will wonder what the Republican governors of Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin could possibly have been thinking.

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • MN Metro Transit: Teen Girl Carried Off Bus is Home Safe, Police Say

    The teenage girl who was carried by a man from a Metro Transit bus Friday night in Minneapolis has returned home safely, a Metro Transit spokesman said Saturday.

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • DC Metro: Transit Police Chief to Investigate Use of Force

    The chief of the Metro Transit Police Department initiated a formal investigation Monday into the actions of two officers who appear, in a video posted to the Internet, to have tackled a wheelchair-bound man outside a D.C. rail station, sending the...

    News • May 24th, 2011

  • China High-Speed Rail Lines Halted

    hina has ordered one high-speed rail line to stop running and halted the construction of another due to violations of environmental protection laws.

    News • May 23rd, 2011

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