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News Archive

  • February 13, 2020

    Safety Research and Demonstration Program FY 2020 Notice of Funding Opportunity Supplemental Form

  • February 13, 2020

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $9.3 million in research funding for innovative projects that will improve rail transit and bus operator safety.

  • February 11, 2020

    The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) is planning to extend its heavy rail system to the Westwood/Veterans Hospital area.  This third phase of the Westside Purple Line Extension begins at the future Century City...

  • February 11, 2020

    The Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works proposes to implement bus rapid transit (BRT) along the existing 20-mile South Dade busway from the Dadeland South Metrorail Station to SW 344th Street in Florida City.

  • February 11, 2020

    The Metropolitan Council (MC) is planning a light rail transit (LRT) extension of the METRO Green Line from the existing Target Field LRT station in downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie in suburban Hennepin County. The line would also serve the...

  • February 11, 2020

    Metro Transit, proposes to construct the METRO Gold Line Bus Rapid Transit project in a nine-mile corridor along I-94. The service will operate in dedicated, bus-only lanes between St. Paul and its eastern suburbs of Maplewood, Landfall, and Oakdale...

  • February 11, 2020

    The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT) in cooperation with the Gateway Program Development Corporation (GDC), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), propose the...

  • February 11, 2020

    Valley Metro plans to extend its light rail system from its end of line station in Northwest Phoenix to the Metrocenter Mall.

  • February 11, 2020

    The City of El Paso is planning a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line from the existing Five Points Transfer Center through Downtown El Paso to the El Paso International Airport and the proposed Far East Transfer Center.

  • February 11, 2020

    The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, in coordination with the Florida Department of Transportation, the City of St. Petersburg, and other regional stakeholders, plans to construct a bus rapid transit line from downtown St. Petersburg to St. Pete...