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Flint MTA Opens Your Ride Center
▶ Flint’s Mass Transportation Authority
opened the Davison Your Ride service
center. The garage will hold 21 El Dorado
vehicles. The facility has two tanks, one
for propane and one for unleaded gas. It
also has lightening protection and a backup
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IT server room and generator.
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Main Street Trolley Rail
Line Back In Service
▶ After nearly four years, the Memphis
Area Transit Authority restored passenger
operations to the Main Street Trolley rail
line. It will operate with three trolley cars.
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Volocopter Presents Air
Taxi Services at Scale
▶ Volocopter has presented its air taxi
infrastructure for cities. The vision integrates
air taxis into existing transportation
systems and provides additional mobility
for up to 10,000 passengers per day
with a single point-to-point connection.
Co-founder Alex Zosel expects the fi rst
full Volocopter air taxi systems with dozens
of Volo-Hubs and Volo-Ports to be in
place within the next 10 years.
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TransLink Launches Electric Bus Trial
▶ TransLink is partnering with Natural
Resources Canada, Metro Vancouver and
BC Hydro to bring four fast-charging electric
battery buses to the region starting in
2019. This two-and-a-half year integration
trial is part of a pan-Canadian initiative led
by the Canadian Urban Transit Research
and Innovation Consortium.
MassTransitmag.com/12408070
Volocopter
VOLOCOPTERS ARE emission-free,
electrically powered aircrafts that
take off and land vertically.
Alan Kirkpatrick
THE TROLLEY will operate from William
Hudson Transit Center to Butler Station.
MTA
THE MTA opened the Davison Your
Ride service center with a ribbon
cutting ceremony.
MTA New York City Transit/Marc A. Hermann
THE NYC Transit Bus Plan
incorporates customer feedback
and recommendations from transit
advocates and technical experts.
THE COURTHOUSE Station will provide convenient trolley access for downtown’s
growing community and is adjacent to the new 22-story $555-million State
Superior Court Building.
Courthouse Trolley Station
Opens in San Diego
Th e Courthouse Station is the new downtown terminus for the Orange Line,
which runs from El Cajon to downtown San Diego and serves approximately
nine million passengers annually. Th e Orange Line previously terminated a
few blocks west at Santa Fe Depot and for a brief time at America Plaza. Th e
Courthouse Station is needed to accommodate future growth of the Trolley
system when the Mid-Coast Trolley extension begins operations in 2021.
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MTA NYC Transit to
Reimagine Bus System
▶ MTA New York City Transit unveiled a
comprehensive plan to reimagine New
York’s entire public bus system and deliver
service with immediate and long-term
improvements.
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