Tag: city

January 30, 2024

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced it had awarded the Seattle Department of Transportation a $64.2 million construction grant for the city’s bus rapid transit line. The RapidRide J Line will provide fast, frequent […]

December 18, 2023

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced Monday that the city’s free, public Wi-Fi network will expand to reach recreation centers — like Middle Branch’s Fitness and Wellness Center, where the announcement was made — as part of larger plans to bridge […]

October 27, 2023

Chicago officials on Thursday announced a new task force to evaluate emerging technologies that can assist in transforming how the city delivers services to residents. The Chicago Taskforce on Innovation and Technology is intended to find solutions to challenges with […]

July 21, 2023

Port of San Diego personnel are touting the recent delivery of a pair of new all-electric Gottwald Generation 6 Mobile Harbor Cranes to the Port’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal (TAMT). “These all-electric mobile harbor cranes are a game changer for […]

June 29, 2023

The Federal Highway Administration and its partners recently completed an environmental review of Manhattan Central Business District Tolling, a congestion pricing program. The agency concluded the program should meet its objectives of reducing congestion and overall vehicle miles traveled. The […]

March 6, 2023

The city of Philadelphia recently split the General Fund to create a new Transportation Fund, Mayor Jim Kennedy announced on Thursday during his presentation to City Council on the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. The split does not require additional staff […]

November 2, 2022

Peak to Peak Charter School, a K-12 charter public school located in the Boulder Valley School District, and Highland Electric Fleets, a provider of electrification-as-a-service for school districts, have partnered to launch a fleet of electric buses to serve the […]

May 24, 2022

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) recently released three potential options for regional rail as part of phase two of the Reimagining Regional Rail project. Reimagining Regional Rail is SEPTA’s plan to make its rail system more useful for more […]

May 12, 2022

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Board Of Directors recently named Randy Clarke as the agency’s next general manager and CEO. “With the current challenges facing Metro, we knew we needed to find an accomplished and innovative executive who […]

April 7, 2022

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dedicated a new air traffic control tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. Construction on the tower started in 2016. The new tower is not only environmentally sustainable but, […]

January 4, 2022

The largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station in Western Pennsylvania was recently installed in Pittsburgh. The station, in the city’s Second Avenue Parking Plaza, includes 15 dual-hose Level 2 chargers. The chargers can fully charge a vehicle in six to […]

June 8, 2021

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials said Tuesday that a cybersecurity incident at the city’s legal bureau is not a ransomware attack, but that an investigation is ongoing. The New York City Law Department, the 1,000-lawyer […]

May 7, 2021

New York City on Thursday took another step toward its goal of providing universal broadband access with an announcement of new partnerships expected to connect an additional 30,000 residents. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office announced the city selected five vendors […]

March 23, 2021

There’s “a light at the end of tunnel” in sight for technology executives that were tasked with suddenly transitioning thousands of city employees and public students to remote work and learning environments last year at the onset of the coronavirus […]

October 1, 2020

The City of Los Angeles should develop a long-term plan to create more digital services for residents and make teleworking even easier for city employees in a post-pandemic world, Controller Ron Galperin argued in a report published Wednesday. Despite its […]

September 14, 2020

Actors using the Maze ransomware are claiming credit for a recent string of attacks against large public school districts across the United States, just as students and teachers are returning to their mostly virtual learning environments. Last Friday, the school […]

August 7, 2020

State and local government leaders this week kept pleading for Congress to include significant funding to help them survive the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, but to little avail as negotiations between House Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House […]

August 6, 2020

As part of Philadelphia’s digital equity initiative, the city announced on Thursday that it will connect 35,000 households with K-12 public school students who lack internet access with up to two years of broadband service, along with devices like laptops […]

April 15, 2020

Starting Tuesday, residents of Kansas City, Kansas, and surrounding Wyandotte County got access to a mobile app that replicates digitally many of services normally offered at physical government offices that have been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The myWyco […]

April 9, 2019

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Cory Gardner introduced legislation Monday that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to give state and local governments grants to purchase additional cybersecurity resources and hire more information-security personnel. Under the State Cyber Resiliency […]