Veolia Transportation manages Escambia County Area Transit. According to the local workers, who are paid on average about $12/hour, Veolia violated a contract by not paying employees a 4.5 percent wage increase. The local manager for Veolia reportedly doesn’t live in Pensacola full time. He commutes from Maryland, only staying in Pensacola about four days a week.
Veolia Transport (formerly Connex) is the international transport services division of the French-based multinational company Veolia Environnement. It trades under the brand names of Veolia Transportation in North America and Israel), Veolia Transport, Veolia Verkehr in Germany and with the former name Connex preserved in Lebanon and Jersey.
Veolia has diverse road and rail operations across the globe, employing 72,000 workers worldwide and serving completely or partly about 40 metropolitan areas with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants
Veolia arrived in the United States in 2001, with the acquisition of Yellow Transportation in Baltimore, Maryland. On September 1, 2005, Veolia (then “Connex”) acquired ATC, making Connex-ATC the largest privately owned public transportation company in North America. In 2006, Connex-ATC changed its name to Veolia Transportation, acquired ShuttlePort, and won several contracts in the USA, including:
Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Los Angeles County, California,
Atlanta : In suburban Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett County Transit operates bus routes within as well as Express Bus routes to Atlanta.
Austin : Capital MetroRail and bus routes throughout Austin and surrounding communities. In March 2009, employees of Veolia Transportation were said to have tested trains on rail sections without prior approval and hence the Capital MetroRail was delayed.
Boston : Veolia operates the MBTA’s regional computer rail operations in conjunction with Bombardier Transportation and Alternate Concepts, Inc. as the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad.
Charm City Circulator operates service throughout Downtown Baltimore.
Denver, CO : Regional Transportation District (RTD) routes throughout the metro-wide District.
Las Vegas: RTC Transit in Las Vegas including The Deuce & MAX (Contract expires September 25, 2011)
Los Angeles : Metrolink, 2005-2010. A Connex/Veolia engineer texting on-duty was responsible for a head-on collision causing 26 deaths and 135 injuries, the deadliest incident in Metrolink history, leading the Metrolink board to return to the previous contractor, Amtrak.
Miami : Tri-Rail, a train system won in 2007 in the Miami metropolitan area of Florida.
Nassau County, New York: Veolia won a contract to operate Long Island Bus in place of the MTA on June 10, 2011, affective January 1, 2012.
New Jersey : Certain bus routes in Monmouth County as part of New Jersey Transit Bus Operations.
New Orleans : New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, won in 2008
Phoenix : the Valley Metro bus system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area of Arizona with contracts in Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe,
Redding: Redding Area Bus Authority
Sacramento : In suburban Yolo County, California, Yolobus provides public transportation.
San Diego : San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus routes and the SPRINTER DMU rail system in San Diego County, California,
Victor Valley transit serving the Victorville, California area.