Mass Transit

MN: Mayo Subsidy Request for Infrastructure Improvements Facing a Tough Sell at MN Legislature

Mayo wants legislators to pledge half a billion in taxpayer dollars over the next two decades. The money would be used to build roads, transit and infrastructure to support the private sector construction of new office buildings, hotels, restaurants...

News • March 18th, 2013

Chicago Tribune Getting Around Column: Ventra Fare System

The Chicago Transit Authority soon will launch a new fare-payment system that affects almost every CTA and Pace rider, although transit officials have yet to fully explain how it will work.

News • March 18th, 2013

FL: Study Looks at Hillsborough Traffic Improvements

The "quadrant intersection" concept is one of 18 strategies the Metropolitan Planning Organization has identified in a new study of how to improve highway safety and relieve traffic congestion. Other ideas outlined in the study include reducing speeds...

News • March 18th, 2013

VA: Council Member Proposes 'New Ideas'

Lee Vogler is in his ninth month as a Danville City Council member and, as he promised during his campaign, he is continuing to look for ways to cut costs and increase revenues for the city, including bus shelter advertising.

News • March 18th, 2013

ON: Downtown Relief Line Called GTA's Missing Link

A downtown relief subway line has become something of an obsession among urbanists and transit fans in the last year.

News • March 18th, 2013

TX: 'Real Time' Passenger Information Coming to DCTA

Within the next year, the Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) will launch a new program that will provide passengers with real time travel information.

News • March 18th, 2013

Kazakhstan: Systra to Oversee Design and Construction of Kazakhstan HSR Line

French consultancy Systra has secured a contract from Kazakhstan's national railway operator, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), to oversee the design and construction of a 1,011km high-speed rail line in the country.

News • March 18th, 2013

Thailand: Pattaya High-Speed Link on Track for 2018

The government is aiming to complete the country's first high-speed train between Bangkok and Pattaya by 2018. Three other lines linking the capital with Phitsanulok, Nakhon Ratchasima and Hua Hin are also scheduled to be completed the following year.

News • March 18th, 2013

Australia: City Sprawl a Growing Threat; Planning Challenge

Perth has become the world's most sprawling city and needs to reimagine itself or its survival is at risk, a new book on the future of Australian cities warns.

News • March 18th, 2013

MA: Girl Arrested in T Driver Beating

A second teen is expected to be arraigned today in juvenile court in connection with Saturday's beating of an MBTA bus driver by a group of youths who stormed his bus, transit police said.

News • March 15th, 2013

TX: Locating Stations May Determine HSR Future in North Texas

The fate of a proposal to build a high-speed rail line connecting Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston may rest on whether North Texas leaders can agree on where to put a station.

News • March 15th, 2013

IL: Metra's Southwest Suburban Line Shortchanged, Officials Say

Commuters living in Lisle have their choice of 15 Metra trains to travel downtown each weekday morning. Lake Forest residents have 12 trains. Lombard, ditto.

News • March 15th, 2013

WI: Scott Walker's Budget Borrows $1B, Mostly for Roads

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget would borrow more than $1 billion over two years, the Legislature's budget office reported Thursday.

News • March 15th, 2013

ON: Guelph Officer Dies in Line of Duty After Transit Bus Collision

A Guelph police officer died after losing control of her cruiser, crossing the median line and colliding head-on with a transit bus while responding in the line of duty to another officer's request for assistance, police say.

News • March 15th, 2013

GA: Zero-Emissions Bus Comes to Macon Streets

The Macon Transit Authority introduced its first zero-emission diesel bus Thursday afternoon, as about 40 people gathered in front of the transit authority's Terminal Station headquarters to watch.

News • March 15th, 2013

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