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SmarTrip was the first contactless smart card for transit in the United States [23] when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18, 1999. [24] By 2004, 650,000 SmarTrip cards were in circulation. [25]
Through Empire's transparency efforts, overtime abuse in the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) was uncovered. [28] Empire discovered that MTA's payroll grew by $418 million in 2018, a large portion of which was from a $119 million increase in overtime. [29] $145 million alone was spent on overtime from the Subway Action Plan.
Hampton Roads Transit (HRT), incorporated on October 1, 1999, began through the voluntary merger of PENTRAN (Peninsula Transportation District Commission) on the Virginia Peninsula and TRT (Tidewater Regional Transit a.k.a. Tidewater Transit District Commission) in South Hampton Roads and currently serves over 22 million annual passengers within its 369-square-mile (960 km 2) service area ...
The Atlanta Fed offers a GDPnow model, which estimates changes in real GDP growth by aggregating 13 subcomponents that make up GDP. GDPnow can provide a timelier gauge of the current state of the economy. [111] Unorthodox Recession Indicators:
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority was formed on February 1, 1993, by the California State Legislature which merged two rival agencies: the Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD or more often, RTD) and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTC).
In October 2021, the MTA considered enabling a fare cap on OMNY cards and devices, similar to the fare caps on Oyster cards. [157] [158] Under the proposal, an OMNY card or device would be charged a pay-per-ride fare on MTA buses and subways if a passenger has made fewer than a specified number of trips in a certain time period. After the ...
The Multi-Modal Center was a winner of the 2007 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture award from the American Institute of Steel Construction, and it is designed to accommodate a future "Brain Train" to Atlanta. Athens Transit and UGA Campus Transit buses were part of an early trial of biodiesel fuel during the 1996 Olympics.
My Card: Kingston Transit: August 2008 ... Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority: 2005 (December) ... Tapp Pay: Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority: 2021