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The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System announced on Friday the purchase order of a dozen 60-foot battery-electric buses to provide service on the new 100% electric Iris Rapid.

Frequent rider? NCTD is offering a new monthly transit pass

Frequent rider? San Diego’s North County Transit District is offering a monthly Sprinter-Breeze pass for $59.

The $2.1 billion Mid-Coast Trolley Project will hit another milestone as it anticipates taking its first passengers on a ride. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more on the exciting achievement.

San Diego’s ambitious Mid-Coast Trolley Project hit a major milestone this week as city leaders take the first ride on the extended trolley line.

To help San Diegans accustom to what will soon be the city’s new public transportation fare collection system, the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) is offering free rides next month on its new app.

As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling to figure out how to win back passengers.

San Diegans are invited to give their input on the San Diego Association of Governments’ (SANDAG) initiative to create a transportation center that would provide direct transit to the airport.

The Mid-Coast Trolley Project reached a milestone and to celebrate, local leaders gathered to highlight the achievement. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has details.

The Metropolitan Transit System’s Board of Directors approved a change to its fare policies Thursday, including a reduction of youth fares and free transfers for the bus and trolley.

Passenger numbers on New York’s MTA and London’s Underground metro system initially crashed by around 95 percent, and have since recovered to only about one-third of last year’s levels. And while those numbers have rebounded, passenger numbers are likely to be lower in the near-to-medium term.

As the coronavirus rages across the U.S., grocery workers, health care professionals, university staffers, cleaning crews and others who don’t have the option to work from home must weigh safety against affordability when deciding how best to commute to their jobs

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Service will expand its evening and weekday service starting Sunday, which will bring some levels of trolley and bus service to near pre-COVID-19 levels.

In cities around the world, public transport systems are the key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies, yet everything from trains to buses to ferries to bicycles will have to be re-imagined for the coronavirus era. In Europe in particular, public transport is shaping up as a new front line in the battle to tame…