FRA issues ROD for Calif. high-speed rail corridor
Decision supports State’s selection of preferred alignment and station locations, and considers the environmental benefits and adverse impacts associated with the preferred network alternative.
Decision supports State’s selection of preferred alignment and station locations, and considers the environmental benefits and adverse impacts associated with the preferred network alternative.
Touted as the "Grand Central of the West", the center will serve more than 100,000 people per day through nine transportation systems once completed in 2014.
Agency also testing new floors, spring-loaded overhead handles on its series 6000 railcars and is currently installing nylon straps on up to 266 railcars.
The new Coradia Nordic EMUs (Electric Multiple Unit) have four articulated cars and can reach approximately 112 miles per hour. The trainsets will be designed and assembled at Alstom’s Salzgitter site in Germany while the ONIX traction system will be constructed at the site in Tarbes, France. They will be delivered by autumn 2010.
Customers will be able to create an account using their mobile phone number and a credit/debit card, and have their parking fee automatically deducted from their account.
Americans drove 3.5 percent less, or 8.9 billion fewer vehicle miles traveled, in October 2008 than October 2007, making it the sharpest decline of any October since 1971.
Funds will finance conversion of existing HOV lanes to High-Occupancy Toll lanes, new bus service and park-and-ride facility improvements, and implement congestion pricing.
Of these orders, 1,294 buses are new orders and 188 buses are exercised options. When these orders combined with those previously reported, they bring the total number of buses ordered to date in 2008 to 4,815, representing a total of $2.78 billion in sales.
All 57 of the new buses will meet or exceed the latest environmental standards by incorporating technologies to reduce exhaust emissions.
New system features touch-activated, tactile map of station, vivid visual displays for the partially sighted and a voice designed for phonetic clarity.
Company financed the transaction with proceeds from a new, $500 million credit facility, which consists of a $200 million term loan and a $300 million revolving line of credit.
Parry Transit, the new American unit of Parry U.K., will plan, design and deploy Parry streetcar systems for the U.S. market.
Colorado may get new green transportation option. BRT system proposed to ease gridlock. Phoenix fare evaders to be fined.
The vote is the latest in an effort to organize private school bus and transit workers across the country.
V.I.P. Charter Coaches specializes in motorcoach tours throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as charter service for corporations, schools and government groups.
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