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Atlanta Business Chronicle - August 12, 2013
Efficiency will be the key to transportation spending in a time of scarce government resources, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told state lawmakers from across the country in Atlanta Monday. "As a country, we have to be more strategic in how we make infrastructure investments," Foxx said on the opening day of the National Conference of State Legislatures' annual conference, meeting this year at the Georgia World Congress Center.
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International Transportation News
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Rail Journal - August 9, 2013
THE Western Australian state government has committed to build both its planned Perth light rail and airport rail links despite considerable doubt about a federal government contribution. Western Australia's treasurer and transport minister Mr. Troy Buswell says transport projects will receive a record $A 5.7bn ($US 5.26bn) in the state's 2013-14 budget, although around half will be allocated to recurrent spending and road projects.
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Passenger Transport - August 12, 2013
Several public transportation agencies are celebrating notable anniversaries in 2013. Here are a few examples. DART Marks 30th Anniversary - On Aug. 13, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the vote that authorized its creation. On that day in 1983, residents in Dallas and 13 other cities elected to be a part of the new public transit agency and contribute one percent in sales tax to fund it; later, two of the original municipalities would drop out and another would opt in.
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The Atlantic Cities - August 12, 2013
When thinking about metro systems, we're usually stuck visualizing either our regular commute or the standard subway map with all the stations labeled. However, here we have a "transit map" that allows a holistic understanding of the New York City subway system and its geographic context.
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New York Times - August 10, 2013
Like most construction workers who come to see Patricia Zavala, the two dozen men who crowded into her office in Austin, Tex., one afternoon in March had a complaint. The workers, most of them Honduran immigrants, had jobs applying stucco to the exterior of a 17-story luxury student residence. It was difficult, dangerous work, but that was to be expected. What upset them was that for the previous two weeks their crew leader had not paid them; each was owed about $1,000.
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My Fox Philadelphia - August 11, 2013
A new unit with the SEPTA Transit Police hit the streets today. The unit will put officers in places where they think crimes will be committed before they happen. Hotspots include on the buses, rails, and subways. Crime on SEPTA is a reality for riders. "I've been robbed before on the L," says Maura Stein of Northeast Philadelphia. "I don't ride at night. Too much stuff be happening," says Nathaniel Williams of North Philadelphia.
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Transport Workers Union - August 8, 2013
Dear Administrator Rogoff: This is to follow up on the recent meeting between the joint ATU-TWU Safety Committee and Vincent Valdes, FTA's Acting Associate Administrator in the Office of Safety. We have had several meetings with Mr. Valdes in the last year focusing on two issues that we are sure you know are a priority for public transportation employees -- transit worker assaults and restroom breaks -- and we therefore presented FTA staff with two requests designed to address these matters in the most appropriate way.
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Washington Post - August 8, 2013
The United Food and Commercial Workers union is rejoining the AFL-CIO, giving the labor federation more power and resources to help revitalize the struggling union movement. The move comes eight years after UFCW and six other unions left the AFL-CIO in a bitter dispute that reduced the federation's clout and took away millions in dues from its budget. The breakaway unions formed a rival federation called Change to Win after complaining the AFL-CIO wasn't doing enough to halt steep membership declines.
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Slate - August 2, 2013
Henry Blodget says he hates labor unions, but unless companies start raising wages we're going to need them. I would put this another way. If you turn back 30 or 40 years, the policy rationale for crushing labor union influence went something like this: In the short-term crushing private sector labor unions is going to lead to a surge in corporate profits, but profits are the fuel of investment and long-term economic growth.
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Lane Today - August 12, 2013
Have you been thinking of a career change lately? Do you have excellent customer service skills but have never driven a bus? If so, Lane Transit District (LTD) wants you to come take a test drive. Lane Transit offers an opportunity for prospective drivers to work with a bus instructor while driving a bus within the safety of its own parking lot. For those that have thought about a possible bus driving career, it's a good opportunity to find out if bus driving might be a good match.
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Take Part - August 8, 2013
If you ever wanted to roll up a fistful of ethical practices into a single unit of living, breathing, carbon-neutral mass transit, try this one on for size: A landscape artist in Spain has put a garden on the roof of a bus. "My mission is to expand the garden area in urban environments, increase the absorption of CO2 and give public transport a new ecological and tourist attraction," says designer Marc Granen of his concept, which he's confusingly calling Phyto Kinetic.
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Railway Age - August 9, 2013
Norfolk Southern on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 disclosed the railroad's business strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its environmental footprint in a filing with the international not-for-profit CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. The railroad's annual public disclosure to London-based CDP provides customers, investors, employees, and communities information about how Norfolk Southern is addressing potential risks and benefits related to greenhouse gas emissions, NS said.
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Occupational Health & Safety - August 7, 2013
As many as 654 new transit buses, either 42-foot or 60-foot models, will be added to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's fleet beginning in June 2014. They are low-floor buses, so passengers will board and ride at the same level as the curb, and they'll emit 80 percent less particulate matter and 96 percent less NOx than the 1997 model-year buses they will replace, according to Metro's announcement of the contract awarded to NABI, LLC. It will build the buses in Anniston, Ala.
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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The Tennessean - August 12, 2013
Metro transit officials are one step closer in their bid to secure up to $75 million in funding for the proposed bus rapid transit line. Last week, federal transit officials alerted the Metropolitan Transit Authority that the $174 million bus rapid transit line, dubbed The Amp, had been approved for the next phase of the application process. The acceptance allows the transit line to enter a pipeline of projects that can eventually apply for federal funding under the Federal Transit Administration's Small Starts program.
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Sacramento Bee - August 13, 2013
Less than a year after California lawmakers mandated sweeping changes for state and local government pensions, federal officials are poised to cut off billions of dollars in transportation funding because of the new laws. A series of decisions by the U.S. Department of Labor could begin Friday that would ultimately freeze more than 100 grants for projects statewide, including more than $60 million in already approved money for Sacramento area transit efforts.
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