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International Transportation News
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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is celebrating its 16th year in a row with improved rail-car reliability, New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said this week. Reliability is measured through the number of miles a rail car travels before breaking down and causing service delays, and this number's been rising annually since the dawn of the new millennium.
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TriMet's spring schedule will include a slate of service upgrades to seven bus lines, but one seasonal weekend line is going away. The agency said the service changes would take effect on March 6. Line 83, the Washington Park loop that runs weekends from May to October, will be discontinued. Instead, TriMet said passengers can ride Line 63-Washington Park and Arlington Heights, which runs from Providence Park through the Southwest Portland park. The Washington Park Transportation Management Association will provide free shuttle service during the summer, TriMet said.
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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The failed attempts to get effective regional transit in Metro Detroit can be measured in the double digits, according to Conan Smith of the suburban advocacy group Metro Matters. By his count, 2012 legislation establishing the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) was the 24th plan since the 1960s. The 23 previous made either some or no progress before eventually dying in Lansing, Washington, D.C., or elsewhere. There were two iterations of DARTA, or Detroit Area Regional Transit Authority. Both were killed, one by veto pen, the other by judicial gavel. Yet another authority was plagued by governance issues and ultimately dissolved by the legislature.
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The city plans to spend more than $1 million to pay for a consultant and to lease an office space for staff working on the light-rail extension project.
A week after state officials
said they need a strong commitment from Virginia Beach on the light-rail project, the city manager released a memo detailing how much and where the city is spending its money. City Manager Dave Hansen laid out the expenditures for light rail in a Friday memo to the City Council. The expenditures are being paid for by the Virginia Beach Transit Extension Project fund, which includes $20 million in city and state money that has been set aside to extend the light rail from Norfolk to Virginia Beach.
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Link Transit will have nearly $400,000 more in its pocket this year to spend on rider services after surpassing more than its usual number of federal performance standards for small cities. The bus agency announced Wednesday in a news release that it has surpassed averages in all six of the feds' "Small Transit Intensive Cities" performance categories, including passenger trips per capita. The program is based on the premise that many small cities provide a level of transit service far greater than their size and density characteristics would typically suggest, the news release said. Some of these small cities operate more vehicles and carry more riders than do other cities with much larger populations. Such systems often have a significant need for operating assistance to pay for the costs of running the system.
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The Monroe Transit is asking for city council approval to accept $1.5 million dollars in federal funds. The money is coming from the Federal Transit Administration. It will be used for salaries, bus parts and other supplies.
Monroe Transit General Manager Marc Keenan says they also plan on adding new buses. One will come to Monroe in March and two more will be purchased in December.
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