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FRA Announces $5.3B in Rail Investments, Including $2B for Amtrak
Funding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHFunding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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Over the next 90 days ticket vending machines at light rail stops will also be upgraded to accept credit cards. Credit card acceptance is part of a comprehensive program to make the payment of transit fares faster and easier for MTA riders.
Read More →Metro Transit said it has has leased a locomotive from the Utah Transit Authority. The locomotive, which will be the sixth in the Northstar fleet, currently is en route to the Big Lake, Minn., maintenance base. It will enhance long-term service reliability and ease maintenance pressures.
Read More →The bill, which also lays the groundwork to make mass transit a priority in future transportation planning and budgeting, now heads to Gov. Crist for approval.
Read More →The system to be upgraded and expanded is designed for early warning detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) materials.
Read More →Transit riders can save, on average, $764 per month. The savings amount is based on the cost of the national averages for parking and driving, as well as the December 8 national average gas price of $2.634 per gallon for self-serve regular gasoline as reported by AAA.
Read More →The new bridges will offer five tracks – three more than the current bridge – providing the ability to take full advantage of the additional capacity into and out of New York that the Mass Transit Tunnel project will create.
Read More →Prepared to request $50 million from the reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act that Congress is expected to consider next year.
Read More →The Obama Administration’s Public Transportation Safety Program Act of 2009 would authorize the Secretary to establish and enforce minimum federal safety standards for rail transit systems — effectively breaking through the 1965 prohibition.
Read More →Gives company full control of the metropolitan Seattle market when added to its existing King County and Pierce Transit contracts.
Read More →Bombardier will operate the streetcars as a free service, 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, between Jan. 21 and March 21, 2010. The vehicles are on loan from the Brussels Transport Company STIB.
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