A request for proposals issued by the Chicago Transit Authority (IL) for an open-fare collection system generated interest from about a dozen banks and credit-card companies.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (TX) is considering purchasing about 600 buses powered by compressed natural gas, reversing an earlier recommendation to buy diesel buses
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.