Super Luxury Tours grounded, suspended by FMCSA
Pennsylvania-based tour bus company Super Luxury Tours has been ordered out-of-service by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
2011 - Page 37 of 48 - BUSRide
Gannett Fleming Supporting LAVTA Bus Rapid Transit
San Francisco-based Gannett Fleming is now providing program management support for the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority’s bus rapid transit line.
DART taps Trapeze ITS for smart transportation system
Trapeze ITS has been chosen by the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority to run its intelligent transportation system.
FTA considering new transit rules for overweight riders
The Federal Transit Authority is proposing to rewrite bus safety rules due to more overweight riders using bus transit.
Zero-Waste-to-Landfill achieved by Thomas Built Buses
High Point, NC-based Thomas Built Buses has become the first school manufacturer to reach a Zero-Waste-to-Landfill operation.
Survey: MD drivers not stopping for school buses
A new survey shows motorists in Maryland are not stopping for school buses.
Motorcoach operators feeling pinch at the pumps
Sandwiched between the volatile oil markets are motorcoach owners and operators who are having to make decisions on gas surcharges.
Carrier selling North America bus A/C business
York, PA-based Carrier is selling its bus air-conditioning business in North America to Mobile Climate Control.
Another tour bus crash injures 25
A tour crash in New Hampshire Monday night left 25 people injured, the third such crash the Northeast area this month.
Reaction to crashes misses the mark
Early morning Saturday, March 12, in New York City, a Wide World Tours coach returning from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut to Chinatown overturned along Interstate 95 in the Bronx and slid into a highway sign, killing 15 people and injuring 20. Monday evening, a Super Luxury Tours motorcoach careened off the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick and struck a concrete overpass support near the Route 18 interchange, lurched across all three lanes and came to rest on the side of the road. One passenger died in the crash. The driver died after being ejected 15 feet through the windshield. These two fatal accidents evoked the public outcry over the overall safety of passengers riding on motorcoaches that has now become predictable. In the aftermath, New York Senator Charles Schumer and Representative Nydia Velasquez complained to the National Transportation Safety Board, citing the first crash “as just another example of an industry that in many cases is operating outside the bounds of city, state and federal transportation safety guidelines,” according to the Associated Press.