Regulations protecting pedestrians and the visually impaired from accidents involving hybrid and electric vehicles could be proposed soon by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority has been given $950,000 of the $3.8 million set aside for transit service in the state’s capital, which will keep buses rolling through the end of September.
During the last two years of the Obama Administration, the FMCSA has issued as many imminent hazard orders placing unsafe bus and truck companies out of service as in the previous 10 years combined.
Phoenix, AZ-based Auto Safety House is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
A tour bus crash near Avoca, NY on Monday has killed two and left 35 others injured.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments has contracted INIT Innovations in Transportation to install a new electronic fare collection system.
Boston-based Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is welcoming RFPs to sell naming rights for its bus, commuter rail and subway lines and stations to its Web site and Charlie Card.
Authorities in Colorado have broken up a large-scale marijuana ring that used tour buses to smuggle pot from Mexico to the Rocky Mountain State.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has endorsed a bill that would require state transit agencies to have a universal fare card by 2015.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Roadcheck 2011 in June performed nearly 80,000 bus and truck inspections at 2,550 locations across North America.
