A transit agency in Florida installed new Narcan kits at its four bus terminals and its employees are being trained on how to use the nasal spray to reverse opioid overdoses. The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority told Fox 13 it is the first transit agency in the Sunshine State to offer such a Narcan training…
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News NJ Transit Riders to Get a Week of Free Rides After Summer of Delays
After a spate of breakdowns that caused long delays, an unscheduled “fare holiday” on the statewide transit network will start on Aug. 26. Related Posts Shohei Ohtani wins second MVP amid what could be record-breaking free agency The heavy spring training favorite to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award is taking home hardware…
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News New Jersey Transit Service Disrupted for Third Time in Less Than a Week
New Jersey Transit service was disrupted once again on Monday evening, with travel suspended in and out of Pennsylvania Station for nearly an hour because of a report of a problem with Amtrak overhead wires in one of the Hudson River tunnels. Service was suspended at 6:37 p.m. and resumed shortly before 7:30 p.m., but…
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News NJ Transit and Amtrak Service Suspended Due to Power Issues
A power failure shut down all train service along the Northeast Corridor between Philadelphia and New Haven, Conn., for more than three hours on Thursday afternoon, causing significant delays in and out of the nation’s busiest transit hub for the fourth time in the last two months. Amtrak said that, on one of the hottest…
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News Rush-Hour Delays Again Hit New Jersey Transit Commuters
Another round of delays at New York’s Pennsylvania Station on Wednesday night gave commuters flashbacks to the meltdown two weeks ago, when fallen electrical wires in New Jersey forced Amtrak to suspend train service on the entire Northeast Corridor between New York and Washington for most of the night. Wait times this time around were…
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News Congestion Pricing Ignites an Old Rift: Drivers vs. Transit Riders
In 2010, Filolaos Kefalas, an electrical engineer, drove a black Corvette into Manhattan for his first date with Lisa Daglian, a transit advocate. She was not impressed. “You know you can take the train,” Ms. Daglian, 61, recalled saying. To this day, the couple continues to quibble over Mr. Kefalas’s car use. But Mr. Kefalas…
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News Faith-based group prevails as judge rules ‘vague’ DC transit group’s ad guideline restricts free speech
A Christian group who decried what it saw as violation of free speech by a Washington, D.C., transit group prevailed as a judge ruled the agency must display the nonprofit’s previously rejected ads. “The First Amendment grants all Americans the right to express their point of view, religious or secular,” First Liberty Institute Senior Counsel…
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News Amtrak and N.J. Transit Service Resumes After Rush-Hour Meltdown
After downed power cables completely halted rush-hour train service along the Northeast Corridor south of New York City on Wednesday night, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak service appeared to be nearly back to normal Thursday morning. New Jersey Transit warned customers that they should continue to expect delays and cancellations on Thursday morning as a…
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News Amtrak and NJ Transit Trains Suspended Because of Fallen Wires at Penn Station
All trains between New York and Philadelphia were suspended on Wednesday evening because of fallen electrical wires in Kearny, N.J., that power the trains at Pennsylvania Station, according to Amtrak. The power outage stopped Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, an Amtrak spokesman, Jason Abrams, said in an email. Long Island Rail Road and subway…
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News Federal Spending Rescued Mass Transit During Covid. What Happens Now?
As commuter buses and trains ran nearly empty at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government stepped in with $69.5 billion in relief funds. It was about five times the federal support for transit approved for 2019, and it is credited with rescuing public transit and saving more than 50,000 jobs in the…
0 52 0May 22, 2024