Month: May 2024
Kings Park School District budget proposing $6.5M transportation center upgrades – Newsday
The Joseph C. Merola Transportation Center in Smithtown. The Kings Park School District is seeking voters’ permission to spend roughly $6.5 million from capital reserves and general fund for a new transportation center for the district’s school buses. Credit: Rick Kopstein The Kings Park School District is looking to finance a $6.5 million project that would replace two … Read more
Cedar Park mayor buys car for family with transportation issues | kvue.com
AUSTIN, Texas — For months, Naree Dilworth and her daughter, Nalia Boudray, have relied on using rideshare apps and walking everywhere they had to go, including getting Boudray to school in Cedar Park. The mother and daughter lived too close to qualify for Leander ISD to offer transportation services and didn’t have the means to … Read more
Public transportation supporters call on lawmakers to pass funding | fox43.com
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Supporters of Pennsylvania’s public transportation are calling on state lawmakers to provide crucial funding to transit systems across the Commonwealth. “Every single resident, regardless of whether or not they’re riders, benefits from public transit systems that serve Pennsylvania,” said Sheila Gombita, the head chairperson of the Pennsylvania Public Transportation Association. Governor Shapiro’s … Read more
$50,000 gift creates scholarships for rail transportation engineering students | Penn State University
Penn State Altoona has received a $50,000 commitment from CSX Transportation to create the CSX Rail Transportation Engineering Scholarship, which will support students in the field of rail engineering. The gift funds four scholarships of $2,500 each year for five years. The first scholarships were awarded for the 2023-24 academic year. Credit: William Didden. All Rights Reserved. … Read more
New tone for Healey transportation funding task force – CommonWealth Beacon
Get the latest CommonWealth Beacon news and opinion — right in your inbox. THE HEALEY ADMINISTRATION’S transportation funding task force appears to be moving in a somewhat different direction in the wake of Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt’s unfiltered comments in April about what taxes and fees she was eyeing – comments for which she was … Read more
B/CS in DC: Transportation needs to keep up with local, state growth
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – The BCS Chamber of Commerce is in Washington D.C. with over 30 local leaders expanding on conversations with national leaders that have put the Brazos Valley on the national funding map. For the past two decades, a group of local leaders have brought a list of concerns from the Brazos Valley … Read more
Johnson’s appointment of pastor to transportation board gets pushback, but advances
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed appointee to the Regional Transportation Authority’s board, a politically connected West Side pastor, struggled Wednesday to answer aldermen’s questions about the role and the looming financial difficulties facing the agency responsible for oversight of Metra, Pace and the Chicago Transit Authority.The City Council Transportation Committee eventually advanced the mayor’s nomination of … Read more
Reno Airport to Undergo New Ground Transportation Center Project | News | 2news.com
The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority (RTAA) has announced the official approval and financial close for the Ground Transportation Center (GTC) project that will improve ground transportation services at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). Conrac Solutions has been named the Public-Private Partnership for this project. Following the successful financial close on May 2, 2024, the project is set … Read more
Policy Lab: Shifting Transportation Habits with Cold, Hard Cash – The Urbanist
This week, the Seattle City Council begins debating the mayorâs proposed transportation levy. Advocates fear the package may fail to invest adequately in transit, bike, and pedestrian improvements, raising questions as to how serious the City is about achieving its own 2030 mode-shift goals, which seek to decrease reliance on cars, as reiterated in last … Read more