Month: April 2020

Cipriana Eckford (RK&K), co-chair of the COMTO DC Chapter’s Diversity, Equity & Small Business Outreach Committee, and owner of Soulfully Speaking Photography, LLC, (SSP), has partnered with another local minority owned business, RX Catering DC (Cheron Burns, owner), to provide care to local healthcare workers. So far, with SSP collecting more than $3750 in community …

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The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is now offering grocery pickup and delivery services with the help of its paratransit drivers for paratransit customers. The agency’s drivers will pick up groceries from the store and deliver them directly to the customer for free. Paratransit riders must place their orders directly with the grocery store and …

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The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) will begin using ultraviolet technology (UV-C) to disinfect high traffic areas, K-9 vehicles and rooms with sensitive equipment. RTA says it will use the Moonbeam3 from Daylight Medical of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, to clean the designated areas. The Moonbeam3 will also be used in response to an incident …

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The MTA is taking further steps to make sure that their employees are protected amid the pandemic. According to a statement released by Craig Cipriano, Acting President, MTA Bus & Acting Senior Vice President, NYCT Department of Buses, the MTA will be adding plexiglass barriers at all of their work locations. Read more.

The Transportation Research Board is asking the community to take part in its “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” challenge. Answer a series of questions about your career journey in transportation and share your experience with the larger TRB audience. Read more here. 

Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono and RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talk to the American Public Transportation Association. Find out what you need to know about transit’s portion of the federal stimulus package, and get a perspective on how transit agencies are dealing with COVID-19 at ground level. Listen to the podcast here.

While the COVID-19 crisis has sidelined much of the U.S. workforce, it has also shown just how important many of our family members, friends and neighbors are in keeping America running. Lost among the well-deserved praise for workers on the front lines of healthcare and emergency response is the critical role the logistics sector is …

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