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STATEWIDE -- Low pay is making it difficult for some employers to fill job openings, according to a recent Oregon Employment Department survey to determine why certain positions remain hard [...]

Honolulu was first introduced to mass transit 100 years ago Aug. 31, 1901. At that time, the first electric street car was turned on, carrying 2,896 paying passengers its first [...]

SeaWorld has hit it big with its bus service between Orlando and its sister park in Tampa, Busch Gardens. A year ago, the two parks started the $5-a-ride service between [...]

* FILLING GAPS: Tri-County Transit System gets workers to the job site on schedule OLDSMAR -- Economic development officials, transportation planners and business people two years ago hatched an ambitious [...]

HAS THE KAIMUKI TROLLEY LEFT ITS HEART AND ITS TOURISTS IN WAIKIKI? Trolley service from Waikiki to Kaimuki (and back again) may be the greatest thing that East Honolulu commuters [...]

The MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Torture Authority?), in its valiant ongoing efforts to improve service (Trains won't be more than 30 minutes late! Twenty-nine minutes maybe, but not 30!) lists commuting [...]

D.C. has a choice as Metro offers expansion options When a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' knocks, it's prudent to at least take a peek at what's there. Metro officials are buzzing with [...]

Even before the train leaves the station, Rob Weber and Daryl Bryant are booted up. En route to Boston from Manhattan on the Acela Express, Amtrak's new high-speed train service, [...]

Closing of T stop brings pain to smaller operators Mohammed Hossain thought he had a sure thing when he purchased the 7-Eleven convenience store on the corner of Atlantic Avenue [...]

The Metropolitan Transit Development Board is prepared to launch a pilot program later this month that could save the public agency money and benefit university students who participate. At the [...]

If one seeks evidence our city has come of age, that its leaders and citizens have their eyes toward the fixture, you can find it in our recent better-late-than-never embrace [...]

Familiarity Lands Firm Contracts and Trust The news that China was granted permanent normalized trade relations may encourage more local firms to consider the world's largest market but it didn't [...]

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority will start a new suburban service from eastern Jackson County to Johnson County on July 10. The KCATA's two new Suburban Expresses will be [...]

For people leaving public assistance for jobs, transportation can be an insurmountable barrier. If there's no direct bus line, the options are few for people without cars. That's where TRIP, [...]

Urban Centers in the Nation Buses, trolleys, trains, taxis, and ferry boats carry thousands of commuters, residents, shoppers, and visitors to, from, and around downtown everyday! There is an extensive [...]

Humana Inc., the nation's third-largest health plan, has agreed to test Aurora-based American Medical Response's Pathways program in Miami and surrounding Dade County, Fla., for three months beginning this summer. [...]

Concord: The New Hampshire House has voted to repeal the state's rail transit authority, which is studying the feasibility of establishing passenger rail service from Concord to Boston. Repeal supporters [...]

Metropolitan Transit System and San Diego Food Bank held the annual 'Stuff the Bus' food drive at San Diego Armed Services YMCA on Dec. 7 to benefit military families who [...]

The Americans with Disabilities Act frightened business. Corporate America feared the law's requirements would hammer its bottom line. Overland Park-based Mayflower Contract Services Inc. did not see it that way. [...]

ANOTHER day, another Sig Alert. It seems this is the place we have come to in Los Angeles. Just look at some recent headlines: '405 Crash Shuts Down Freeway, Causing [...]

FORMING A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM The Des Moines Metropolitan Transit Authority is seeking both state and federal funds to finance a trial of commuter bus service between Des Moines and [...]

Escape from Hartsfield International Richard Rose, an Atlanta software designer, got into the transportation business because he was sleepy. Rose has done a lot of business in New Orleans and [...]

Option 1--MTA Fixed Routes and Express Buses The MTA offers 15 regularly-scheduled bus routes to make your commute easy and convenient. These routes serve the cities of Des Moines, Windsor [...]

NESHOBA COUNTY -- The communities of Choctaw and Philadelphia will soon have a new mode of public transportation called The Zip Public Transit. The new service kicks off February 22, [...]

The 26 local transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area plan to alllow passengers to use a card called TransLink to use their facilities including transfer. The participating companies must find a way to distribute the funds collected in payment for the tickets.

It's dismaying to hear that the completion of the trolley through uptown may be delayed for up to three years because of unforeseen troubles in routing track through the convention [...]

Downtown Columbus has trolley cars trolling its sweets for the first time in nearly half a century - thanks to the Central Ohio Transit Authority's outgoing general manager. Three trolleys [...]

Transit: Compliance with ADA problematic Public transit officials say the subsidized taxi service known as San Diego Dial-A-Ride will likely be history by the end of this fiscal year. About [...]

Look, up in the sky! It's a future drop in airplane passenger traffic in the Northeast Corridor. At least that's what the federally owned Amtrak hopes will happen when it [...]

Companies probe commuting patterns in labor search The once-simple pattern of workers commuting from suburb to city has evolved into an almost inverse situation, as more and more jobs reside [...]