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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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Managers who dread coming into the office because they have to deal with under-performing staff members are not alone. Their lament is common. Managers of all stripes are being challenged daily by the need to inspire and rehabilitate employees, who often seem like they’d prefer to be somewhere, almost anywhere else.
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Veolia Transportation was officially awarded a five-year contract to operate bus service for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).
Read More →Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) won the Rail Transit Team Achievement Award at the 16th Annual American Public Transportation Association (APTA) International Rail Rodeo, held in conjunction with the 2008 APTA Rail Conference in San Francisco. First place in the Operators Competition went to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (S.F. MUNI.)
Read More →Siemens, as part of a consortium led by the construction company Bilfinger Berger, has been awarded an order to build an 11.8-mile light rail line in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a turnkey project worth over $1 billion.
Read More →Bombardier Transportation> and Russian-based Transmashholding announced an agreement to establish a new joint venture to develop a new family and generation of locomotives using asynchronous propulsion technology.
Read More →According to an American Public Transportation Association(APTA) survey, 35 percent of vacationers said they will use public transit, representing a seven percent increase from APTA’s 2007 “Green Travel Forecast Survey.”
Read More →Siemens Transportation Systems Inc.(STS) received a notice to proceed from the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to build and deliver 77 S70 light rail vehicles over a four-year period. This is UTA’s fourth order with STS, bringing its total number of Siemens vehicles to 117.
Read More →The Charlotte, N.C. City Council voted to exercise the final remaining contract option with Siemens Transportation Systems to purchase four additional light rail vehicles for Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS).
Read More →The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will install approximately 1,000 more bike racks at stations throughout its system and announce its second commuter rail bike coach during Bay State Bike Week.
Read More →Agency is founding member of Climate Registry.
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