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Join a National Consortium Developing Courseware and Career Pathways for Rail Vehicle Maintainers
The Center is nearing the end of an active and successful recruitment period for mass transportation agencies and unions to join us in our FTA Proposal, "Pathways that Work for the Industry and the Community." This coming week is the final time period for outreach, and the Center is interested in hearing from any agencies we have not yet reached who may be interested in participating.
Project participants will collaborate with other agencies, unions and educators to create curriculum based on national industry training standards which will assist locations in meeting both their training and recruitment needs. Rail agency locations are working to create a full system of qualification for rail technicians (link to E-7 report). All locations will also work on a pre-employment curriculum to get new entrants prepared to learn in a technically challenging work environment. Any location interested in this project should contact Project Manager Tia Brown or Director Jack Clark. To ensure that we can add you to our consortium, please contact us no later than December 12th, 2014.
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Like a teenager lobbying for the car keys, Phoenix came of age in the era of the automobile. The area's explosive growth in the mid-20th century reflected America's similarly growing love affair with cars. As a result, the Valley of the Sun is designed for driving, with wide, well-maintained streets, ubiquitous turn lanes and abundant parking. Unfortunately, car-friendly amenities like sprawling parking lots can make other ways of getting around more difficult.
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The Boston Globe - November 28, 2014
The T set a record for ridership in October, with more than 37 million passenger trips, the transit agency said Friday. Previously, October 2013 held the record, with about 36.7 million trips, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said. The new benchmark, 37.3 million, came three months after the MBTA raised fares by 5 percent.
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Progressive Railroading - December 2, 2014
Amtrak has named Chicago attorney Howard Learner a member of the Chicago Gateway Initiative, the railroad's blue ribbon panel charged with identifying infrastructure and operational improvements that can address rail gridlock in the Chicago area. Learner serves as president of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center and has "deep local expertise in regional issues," Amtrak officials said in a press release.
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San Francisco Gate - December 1, 2014
It's 5 p.m. in downtown San Francisco, and most BART riders are going with the flow, squeezing into packed trains while bracing for a long ride home on their feet amid end-of-day armpits and bikes and pungent breath. But something else is going on in the underground stations. The upstreamers are doing their thing. Yearning to nab a seat where they can relax and fire up Facebook or "Candy Crush," they ride in the opposite direction for one stop or several, then cross the platform, board an emptier train and come back in style.
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San Francisco Gate - November 30, 2014
Think Bart and Muni stations already have enough homeless people inside them? Starting Monday, there will be even more. A new ad campaign produced by the Coalition on Homelessness will go up in public transportation hubs and on Muni buses with the intention of breaking stereotypes about homeless people.
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Washington Business Journal - November 25, 2014
Tired of waiting for a late bus? The District is planning a major initiative to improve timeliness - one that could prove so effective, buses end up running early. The D.C. Department of Transportation is in search of a contractor to install transit signal priority (TSP) equipment at 103 signalized intersections - 68 downtown, 19 along 16th Street NW, 13 on the Wisconsin Avenue corridor and three along Georgia Avenue NW. TSP systems, according to reams of federal research, can significantly improve bus travel times.
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Politics on the Hudson - November 28, 2014
Public transportation systems outside New York said they have $1 billion in needs to replace buses and update facilities to met growing ridership. The state Public Transit Association said in a report that New York has more than 100 transit systems that provide mainly bus service to 570,000 daily customers. The group is seeking an additional state aid, saying it estimates a $577 million funding gap over the next five years.
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Progressive Railroading - December 1, 2014
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) commission last week issued a report that calls for the agency to make significant changes to its way of doing business and recommended seven strategies for meeting future challenges. The MTA Transportation Reinvention Commission's report calls on MTA to "change its practices and become more resilient in order to accommodate a growing population, changing travel patterns, rising expectations and a more volatile climate," according to an MTA press release.
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Portland Tribune - November 28, 2014
TriMet is changing the schedules on 10 bus lines on Sunday, Nov. 30, to add trips and better match service to ridership and traffic conditions. The $570,000 in schedule adjustments will take place at the start of the regional transit agency's winter quarter. They are in addition to $10.7 million in service improvements TriMet has made since September 2014, which were the first service expansions since the Great Recession.
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COTA plans to spend more money next year to put more uniformed police officers on city buses to combat a spike in incidents that require law-enforcement response. Between January and October, police responded to an average of 175 incidents a month on Central Ohio Transit Authority buses. That's an increase of about 36 percent from the average 128 incidents a month during the same period last year.
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During my tenure in Congress, I have seen federal investments in education and training spur economic growth and lower unemployment rates in South Texas. As a result, I am convinced that investing in American workers strengthens our local and national economies. To be sure, while our economy has improved significantly since the Great Recession, we must not abandon the long-term unemployed or American workers who continue to have difficulty accessing good, family-sustaining jobs and careers.
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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The previously favored "Great Circle" plan to replace Amtrak's 19th century tunnel in West Baltimore called for maximizing tunneling to minimize surface disruption. Now a new plan calls for a shorter tunnel which would cut a swath through the Midtown-Edmondson neighborhood. The west portal under the new alternative tunnel would be located near the very typical West Baltimore intersection of Payson and Lanvale streets. Typical for West Baltimore means a plethora of abandoned houses.
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