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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Fairfax Connector riders will have to pay more starting July 29. On Tuesday, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to increase Fairfax ...
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — With 2025 off to a fresh start, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation announced that several changes are coming to routes along the Fairfax Connector.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — For the fifth day in a row, the Fairfax Connector isn’t running as around 650 bus operators and mechanics continue to strike amid contract negotiations.
A Fairfax Connector bus [Photo by Flicker.com, MW Transit Photos / CC BY 4.0] On Wednesday evening, 638 bus drivers, mechanics, utility and facility workers and clerks began a walkout at the ...
Fairfax Connector offices in Fairfax, Va., on Thursday. Bus workers and mechanics have been on strike for over a week. (Danny Nguyen/The Washington Post) ...
Fare increases to ride the Fairfax Connector begin Monday, July 29. Riders on the Fairfax Connector will pay 12.5 percent more. Children 12 and under will continue to ride free with a paying adult.
Virginia Fairfax Connector services will resume on Friday, new contract ratified After months of negotiating and a 15-day strike, a new contract for Fairfax Connector employees has been ratified.
Fairfax Connector has provided “low-ball offers” which are “a slap in the face” to the workers, the ATU has written. In 2019, Fairfax Connector drivers went on a four day strike.
Fairfax Connector employees went on strike early morning Feb. 22, 2024, after ATU Local 689 and contractor Transdev failed to reach an agreement on a new contract for unionized bus operators and ...
A Fairfax Connector route change that eliminated bus stops in front of Jeff Vieceli's home has him concerned since he has a visual impairmtent.
The Fairfax Connector workers’ union reached an agreement with the private company that operates the buses Wednesday evening, marking an end to a strike that has suspended bus service for two weeks.
Workers from Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 689, representing the 683 bus operators and mechanics for the Fairfax Connector, went on strike just after midnight on Thursday, Feb. 22.