• Tag Archives: Bus

    Bus Company Ignored Shutdown Command; Feds Get Restraining Order

    Double Happyness – a Philadelphia-based bus company — now can add a restraining order to its growing pile of legal notices from the federal government....

    Transit-Poor Brooklyn Neighborhood To Get Some Bus Relief

    The B61 — Red Hook’s only bus line — will get some additional bus service this spring. New York’s MTA said it will tweak the...

    New York Conducts Long Distance Bus Inspection Crackdown

    Governor Cuomo’s office says 116 bus drivers and 95 buses have been pulled out of service after a two-week roadside inspection blitz by New York...

    Corgi Dressed as M23 Bus Wins NY Halloween Dog Parade

    A corgi dressed as an M23 bus won Best in Show at the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Day Parade on Saturday. Related stories Bus Company...

    Study: Transit Ridership Up in 2011

    Transit ridership increased by 85.7 million trips, or 1.7 percent nationwide, in the first six months of 2011, according to a report released today by...

    Guerrilla Artist Puts Artsy Chairs at Bus Stops

    (Orlando, FL — WMFE) It’s not always easy to ride Central Florida’s public bus system known as Lynx.  It’s not that there’s anything wrong with...

    Chrysler Back in the Big Three, No Dulles Metrorail Agreement Yet, & Summer at the Jersey Shore Brings Out the Bike Thieves

    The Sky Express Bus Company, involved in a fatal crash this weekend, had the worst record in the country for driver fatigue and falsifying driving...

    Sales of Small Cars Boosting US Auto Industry, Boston’s Transit Is Booming, Melbourne’s Bike Share Is Not

    Sales of small, fuel-efficient cars are revitalizing the American auto industry. (New York Times) Meanwhile, Democrats try to use that industry’s recovery as political leverage....

    As New York City’s Job Rate Rises, So Does Subway Ridership

    (New York, NY – Jim O’Grady, WNYC) Even though the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised subway fares three times in the past three years,...

    Boston: Upwards of 1/3 of Riders Use Transit App Tools

    (Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation)  About a year ago, I did a story for Marketplace on how Boston is releasing the GPS data on buses to...