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| Date |
Description |
August 18, 2008
Storm-stricken bus service limits transit options |
New Orleans CityBusiness -- Ridership climbs but only 19 percent of pre-Katrina buses are back on street. The New Orleans RTA (NORTA) chalks up many of its lingering service issues to Hurricane Katrina, which ruined 200 city buses. |
July 18, 2008
Fuel costs strain U.S. mass transit, too |
Los Angeles (Christian Science Monitor ) -- With West Coast gasoline prices averaging $4.41 per gallon, even car-crazed southern Californians are joining the move toward public transportation. |
July 16, 2008
U.S. cities scrambling to meet rising mass transit demands |
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- U.S. cities are racing to cope with ever-increasing demand on public transportation as gas prices remain at record levels. |
May 13, 2008
Ditch that car, hop a train |
NEW YORK (CNN) -- As the price of gas soars, more and more commuters are leaving their cars in the garage... |
May 10, 2008
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit |
DENVER — With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. |
May 9, 2008
Gas prices rattle Americans |
USA Today - Record high gas prices are prompting Americans to drive less for the first time in nearly three decades, squeezing family budgets and causing major shifts in driving habits... |
March 10, 2008
Mass transit use hits 50-year high on pump prices |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans hopping buses and grabbing subway straps has climbed to the highest level in half a century as soaring gasoline costs push more commuters to take mass transit. |
Dec. 21, 2007
Top U.S. Transit Official Announces $1.9 Million Grant to APTA
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Federal Transit Administrator announced a $1.9 million federal grant to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) to develop new industry standards, some of which will enable communities across the country to buy safer, more accessible buses and rail cars at a better price. |
Dec. 4, 2007
Nearly 50 million more trips taken in third quarter 2007 |
Americans took nearly 50 million more trips on public
transportation during the third quarter of 2007, compared to the third quarter of 2006. |
Dec. 3, 2007
Jefferson Transit begins using alternative fuels |
Beginning in mid-December Jefferson Transit will be switching fuels from a petroleum-based diesel to a biodiesel blended fuel and will be completed by early January. |
Oct. 15, 2007
Increased Service on the E1 Veterans Route |
Jefferson Transit is increasing bus service on the E1 Veterans Route during peak hours. |
March 12, 2007
Nationwide - Riders crowd public transit systems
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From USAToday.com - Ridership on public transportation jumped to the highest level in nearly five decades in 2006. |
March 4, 2007
Jeff transit service expanded |
From NOLA.com - Jefferson Parish will increase both east bank and West Bank transit service today. The added service will bring back routes or route segments that were discontinued following Hurricane Katrina. |
Feb. 11, 2007
RTA Buses Making a Slow Return |
From NOLA.com - Before Katrina, the RTA carried about 750,000 riders in a good week. In 2006, it failed to hit that total for any single month. |
Dec. 1, 2006
New Orleans RTA gets money to continue services |
From NOLA.com - New Orleans' financially crippled public transit system got a bit of good news Thursday after federal and state officials agreed to pick up the tab for services that will temporarily save about 50 jobs targeted for elimination. |
Nov. 30, 2006
Free rides on Jefferson Transit buses to be halted
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From NOLA.com - The fares will return Friday, December 1 on the fixed-route bus services and on the parish's Mobility Impaired Transit System for riders with disabilities. |
Nov. 21, 2006
Jefferson Transit Resumes Regular Fares (PDF)
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Jefferson Transit will begin collecting regular fares on both fixed and MITS paratransit (Mobility Impaired Transit System) routes starting Friday, December 1, 2006. |
