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Monday, May 30, 2016

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New Palm Tran director ousts one deputy, demotes another

Amid charges of doctored on-time figures, the new head of Palm Tran in West Palm Beach, Fla., has demoted Palm Tran Connection's director and accepting the resignation of a deputy who once ran the bus agency. Palm Beach Post [5-26]>> Photo by Lannis Waters / Palm Beach Post

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NJ Transit shelves engineer with history of DWIs

New Jersey Transit says an engineer who made headlines when a TV station revealed he had been driving trains while his motor vehicle license was suspended for repeated drunken driving is no longer driving locomotives. Daily Record / AP [5-28]>> Star-Ledger Editorial [5-30]>> Photo: AP

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Memphis transit agency says it's stuck with 38 'lemons'

Already beset with financial, regulatory and structural problems, the Memphis Area Transit Authority says it is stuck with 38 buses so prone to malfunction that they have been parked for years. Memphis Commercial Appeal [5-29]>> Photo by Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal

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