METRO Briefs
Feds: Honolulu rail price realistic. L.A. Metro approves toll plan. LIRR launches public campaign. Motorcoach operator goes social.
Feds: Honolulu rail price realistic. L.A. Metro approves toll plan. LIRR launches public campaign. Motorcoach operator goes social.
The ADA Liberty Progress Award is granted to a community organization or advocate whose intent and actions embrace the accessibility, inclusion and advancement of Arizonans with disabilities.
The study also determined the expansion will create 32,095 job-years of employment, or an average of 6,400 jobs each year for the next five years.
Will provide 12 trainsets composed of four cars each, featuring a signaling system for automatic train operation, low floors and illuminated information boards.
Trio of senators to tour Tri-Rail and discuss funding challenges.
Operator feels addition of safety belts will be a decision-making factor for many customers.
Will partner to establish high-speed train service in the Los Angeles Corridor, utilizing Metro-owned facilities and rights-of-way.
Company honored by local business journal for ability to be progressive in benefit packages, employee incentives, innovative work styles, community service and the “fun factor."
Two signal companies, Ansaldo STS USA and Alstom Signaling Inc., which designed and manufactured the automatic train control components for the Metro system, are providing technical assistance to the NTSB investigation.
Immediate safety steps taken include hourly announcements to all operators reminding them it is a rule violation to cut-out or bypass any vehicle function or change operating modes without approval from Central Control.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Rail crash safeguards not always used. Foreign rail firms looking to stimulus . Motorcoach from 1937 rescued, renovated.
Orders are from both current and new customers and are for a variety of vehicle configurations and propulsion systems, including 35-, 40- and 60-foot buses with clean diesel, diesel-electric hybrid, CNG and LNG.
Records show that six additional track circuits failed to detect the presence of trains. The cause of the problem is still not known.
Dozens of officials and guests, including players from the New York Jets and New York Giants, joined N.J. Governor Corzine for the train ride, which originated in Hoboken and finished with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Meadowlands Station.
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