Transportation
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Pennsylvania Turnpike to file criminal charges in effort to collect $17 Million in unpaid tolls
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is intensifying its efforts to collect unpaid tolls as it is filing criminal charges against the worst offenders, writes Ed Blazina for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The turnpike is currently owed more than $17 million in unpaid dues. In an effort to collect at least a part of this, the turnpike has started…
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Modernized PennDOT customer care website to allow easier submissions, responses to customer roadway concerns
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has modernized its online Customer Care Center – customercare.penndot.gov – to make it easier to report concerns on state-maintained roadways with new mapping capabilities, optional photo uploads and a mobile-friendly interface. “We continually look for ways to use technology to improve our customers’ experience, and our new Customer Care Center makes…
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Sen. John Rafferty receives Distinguished Service Award
State Sen. John Rafferty Jr. was recently honored with the State Distinguished Service Award by the American Public Transportation Association at a ceremony held by SEPTA, which nominated the Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee for improving public transportation in Pennsylvania. Following decades of underinvestment throughout the Commonwealth’s transportation system, Rafferty gained bipartisan support for…
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Tech Talk: Hyperloop between Pittsburgh and Philly being explored
Imagine your boss telling you, you have to go to Pittsburgh for a very important meeting. Perhaps the first thing that pops into your mind is, I really don’t want to drive all the way from Montco to Pittsburgh, that’s a five-plus hour drive! Now imagine getting there in half an hour. It’s not hyperbole…
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PennDOT announces customers may bring REAL ID documents to driver license centers beginning September 1
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Deputy Secretary for Driver and Vehicle Services Kurt Myers provided an update today on Pennsylvania’s progress toward compliance with the federal REAL ID Act, and how customers can apply for REAL ID pre-verification in PennDOT driver license centers in the coming weeks. Because PennDOT may already have electronic documents on file for approximately 35 percent…
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SEPTA links train station with new bus stop in Lansdale
Officials from Lansdale and SEPTA were able to celebrate a completed project recently by marking the opening of the new Railroad Avenue bus stop, which creates another link in the town’s transit system. “This is our newest facility at the Lansdale Station complex, offering seamless connections between SEPTA regional rail, behind me, and bus services,”…
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Webinars to give the lowdown on SEPTA rail plans for King of Prussia
SEPTA has been contemplating a rail extension through King of Prussia for years, and every day, it seems, the dream inches closer to reality. Stakeholders who want the latest on the $1 billion, 4.5 mile project can sign up for a series of webinars beginning Sept. 18, writes Roberto Torres at technical.ly. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Up…
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Road upgrade gets underway in Perkiomen Valley
Work will begin this week on an $11.3 million road improvement project in Perkiomen Valley. The intersection of Meyers Road and Miller Road will be closed and detoured Friday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. through 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, as the initial excavation gets underway, according to Digital First Media. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Ultimately, the…
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Montgomery County approves plan for 800 miles of bike paths
Montgomery County plans to add 800 miles of bike paths to its on-road bicycle system. The new master plan, called “Bike Montco,” approved last week, calls for adding bike lanes in towns, near high schools, colleges, and transit stops, and to connect to park trails, writes Sara Hoover at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The first bicycle…
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City Avenue District announces completion of Presidential Boulevard project
The City Avenue Special Services District Monday announced completion of a re-design of Presidential Boulevard. The project, in partnership with Lower Merion Township, includes a mid-block pedestrian crosswalk, allowing pedestrians on the east side of Presidential Boulevard to access the west side and City Avenue; the addition of shoulders with bike lanes and a center…
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SEPTA changes station name, nets millions
SEPTA’s capital budget will see a few million more dollars thanks to the terms of its new naming rights deal with NRG Energy. The public transit agency and the power company announced Thursday a five-year, $5.3 million naming rights deal that will put the NRG name on signs, maps and interactive screens throughout the Broad Street…
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SEPTA to stop issuing paper transfers as the Key continues
SEPTA would like to remind customers that paper transfers for travel on buses, subways and trolleys will stop being issued at the end of the service day on Tuesday, July 31. Starting Aug. 1, to receive a qualifying $1 transfer, customers will need to use a SEPTA Key Card with Travel Wallet. Similarly, customers who…
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SEPTA’s high speed line for King of Prussia moves on to the next stop
It’s not quite one-stop shopping in King of Prussia, but it could take a step in that direction. SEPTA has issued a request for proposals for the $1 billion of work that will go into the King of Prussia Rail extension of the High Speed Line in Norristown. The extension aims to link the region’s…
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SEPTA brings new locomotives online
SEPTA unveiled its newest fleet of locomotives that officials say will make mass transit more reliable. The transit agency purchased 15 ACS-64 Siemens locomotives at a cost of more than $100 million, writes Tom MacDonald at WHYY.org. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The model was selected after Amtrak chose it for its fleet, said Jeff Kneuppel, SEPTA general manager.…
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RETTEW joins list of Greater Valley Forge TMA partners
RETTEW, an engineering firm headquartered in Lancaster and with an office in Conshohocken, has been named to the Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association’s growing list of partners. GVF works with the private and public sectors to advocate and educate employers, their employees and residents on Transportation Demand Management strategies, writes Donna Rovins at pottsmerc.com.…
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SEPTA looking to hire engineering consultant for King of Prussia Rail
SEPTA is looking to hire an engineering consultant to “advance further engineering of the King of Prussia Rail extension of the Norristown High Speed Line,” according to a press release. Responses to the RFP (Request For Proposal) for an engineer are due in September, when the SEPTA Board will vote to award the contract following…
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SEPTA leads country in rail safety upgrade
SEPTA operates one of the few rail systems in the country to have installed the train safety system Positive Train Control in time to meet a congressionally mandated deadline at the end of this year. One hundred percent of its trains have been equipped with the system, and 100 percent of its employees have been…
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Railroad tracks, spur of Lansdale’s past, may be the key to its future
Lansdale, a Montgomery County borough of about 16,000, exists because of the railroad. When the North Penn Railroad was laying tracks from the city to the Lehigh Valley, Doylestown insisted on a spur, and that junction opened in 1856 in what today is Lansdale, writes Jason Laughlin at philly.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The Black Reserve Bookstore, about…
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