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International Transportation News
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Indonesia's Transportation Ministry has requested that the Communications and Information Ministry block popular taxi-hailing applications Uber and Grab Car, saying that the services lack operating permits. The request was sent via a request letter to the Communications and Information Ministry on Monday, Transportation Ministry Spokesman JA Barata said. "They don't comply with the Transportation Law," he told thejakartapost.com during a telephone conversation.
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Progressive Railroading - March 15, 2016
Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) first "Fleet of the Future" rail car has been completed and is headed from Plattsburgh, N.Y., to the agency's testing facility in Hayward, Calif. The car will be followed by nine others throughout the year to make BART's first 10-car test train, agency officials in a news release. Upon arrival, the car will undergo several months of testing before being put into passenger service. It's expected the unit will go into service in December, BART officials said. The new cars are expected to run more quietly due to "micro-plug" doors that help seal out noise. The units also feature cooling systems that distribute air directly to the ceilings, padded seats, color-coded BART system maps and wider aisles. Bombardier Transit Corp. is building the new cars.
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Trains - March 14, 2016
The Sacramento Regional Transit District is looking to bring on a new team of transit enforcement agents whose main goal will be to make sure all passengers are properly ticketed. According to an agency news release, the new classification will put one transit agent on every light rail train. The agency will seek approval for 30 transit agents during its next board meeting on March 14. The positions are part of the agency's system wide improvement initiative that looks to increase fare compliance and decrease on-board nuisance behavior. The agency operates 38.6 miles of light rail covering more than a 415-square-mile area.
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has unveiled a final rule designed to strengthen safety oversight and enforcement authority to prevent and mitigate accidents on transit-rail systems, the agency announced yesterday. The rule will take effect 30 days after it is published in tomorrow's Federal Register, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) officials said in a press release. "With the more rigorous and effective state safety oversight required by this final rule and federal law, transit systems across the nation will receive greater safety oversight with the aim of improving safety for passengers and transit system employees," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "Greater investigatory and enforcement power combined with better training will give state safety oversight watchdogs sharper teeth to help rail transit agencies keep their systems safe."
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday welcomed the endorsement of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which is the largest labor union representing transit and allied workers in the United States and Canada. "I'm proud to have the support of the Amalgamated Transit Union," Sanders said. "Our political revolution can only happen if thousands of working people stand together and tell the millionaires and billionaires they can't have it all." "The sincerity of Bernie Sanders and his long-standing fidelity to the issues that are so important to working people are what convinced us that standing with Bernie is standing with the 99 percent of America that has been left out of the mainstream public debate, cheated out of our jobs and denied the true meaning of the American dream," ATU President Lawrence J. Hanley said.
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Unions representing rail workers are expected to vote this week on a tentative agreement with New Jersey Transit. Labor and management reached the agreement Friday night, about 24 hours before a strike deadline. Commuters had been bracing for a major disruption at the start of the work week. More than 4,000 workers are affected by the contract. Governor Chris Christie praised both sides last Friday for their willingness to negotiate in good faith. The unions have been working without a contract since the last one expired in mid-2011. Union officials haven't released details of the tentative agreement.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Federal officials say Ohio's capital is a finalist in a national competition to find a city to fully integrate innovative technologies such as self-driving cars, connected vehicles and smart sensors into its transportation network. The U.S. Department of Transportation recently named Columbus one of seven finalists in the department's "Smart Cities Challenge." The agency expects to provide up to $40 million to the winner to help that city define what it means to be a "Smart City' and help transform the future of urban transportation.
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