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Last month when I was at the BC Transit's BC Junction terminal in downtown Binghamton I saw a cream colored Bieber H3-41 pull in on the intercity coach side of the terminal. Also a couple of years ago ...

Thanks Bill, we're looking forward to catching the RTS one more time. Kudos to you & your staff for keeping them in such good shape for 15 years.

Mark

Myself and a few others are heading to Waterbury on Saturday hoping to catch some parting shots of the RTS. Bill D had posted a few weeks ago that the Excelsiors wouldn't be entering service in Waterb ...

CCTA (Burlington VT) has several Gillig BRT suburbans for their LINK Express routes. A notice on their website informs passengers that bicycles will not be allowed in bike racks on LINK Express buses ...

Here in Lowell MA the LRTA ran from first trip (5:30AM) to last trip (8:20 PM) with snow routes and avoiding hills and unplowed streets and shopping centers. I heard of 8 or 9 stuck bus calls that mai ...

Portland (Maine) METRO has cancelled service all day on Monday.

CT Transit Hartford area routes running up to 30 minutes late, up to 15 minutes late on New Haven area routes, and 20 to 25 minutes l ...

Bill D: I did ride a couple of the hilly routes when I last visited Waterbury in August. A couple of steep hills too, IIRC. Does Waterbury service ever detour to snow routes if the conditions warrant? ...

More service cancellations to report: Concord Coach Lines suspending all service to NH & Maine points for the remainder of today after 5:00PM, Boston Express (I-93 & Route 3 corridor to Boston ...

Peter Pan's website indicates Peter Pan and Greyhound will be suspending service in the NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Hartford & Boston corridor, with last trips departing between 1:00 & 3 ...

Bolt Bus reports on it's website that they are running all scheduled service until 6:00PM tonight, and will make a decision by 3:00PM for service scheduled for after 6:00PM, and all Monday service is ...

According to the WRTA website and TV news reports, ATU 22 members have agreed to a 2 year contract, a 1 percent raise in the first year (retroactive to July 1st) and a 1.5 percent rise the second year ...

And it looks like they have 10 more Gilligs coming, to replace the last of their 1991 RTS:

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3pressrelease&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3&b=pressrelease&f=10 ...

Found this article on line from Worcester Magazine, reporting the WRTA had a balanced budget for FY '10 (first time in years), ridership is up 8 percent since 2007, still nowhere near the numbers of 1 ...

There will be no strike tonight, as Worcester's City Manager asked WRTA management to provide a 15 day cooling off period. Management will not impose the last best offer, WRTA drivers have agreed to t ...

It appears the WRTA drivers are going on strike as of 11PM Friday night, a 2 hour meeting today with ATU Local 22 & RTA management produced no agreement, it appears the RTA imposed the last best o ...