As the Holidays approach, transit agencies do their best to react to increased travel of their riders getting to and from families. “AAA predicts more than 53.4 million people expected to travel, the highest single-year increase since 2005 - https://newsroom.aaa.com/”. The Holiday season is already ramping...
Throughout the country, public transportation systems saw their ridership numbers decline due to the pandemic. According to the American Public Transportation Association, ridership nationwide decreased by 53.3 percent in 2020. At the height of the pandemic, some cities even saw a decline as significant as...
After months of negotiations, the House finally passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill sending to President Biden who signed it just 10 days later. While the bill focuses on every infrastructure sector, $107 billion is allocated towards transit, with $39 billion for public transit upgrades,...
The bus driver shortage is one of the biggest challenges facing the transportation industry. Pre-COVID, transit agency driver shortages have been plaguing cities throughout the country. Between funding cuts and less-than-competitive pay for public sector jobs, workers haven't been inclined to pursue jobs as public...
