U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer asked the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fast track plans to bring free wireless Internet to the Long Island Railroad.
Metrolink plans to install automatic train stop technology at 43 locations this summer and, by the end of the year, all cars will have crash energy management technology.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and communications.