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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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Includes nearly $60 million in concessions. A two-year wage freeze will save the agency $19.6 million. A key provision lets the union to void the contract if the state and county don't provide adequate future funding and the authority is forced to lay off employees or close garages.
Read More →Congress should make it easier to use private contractors, consortia or financing so that agencies can better develop the best strategies that work for them.
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As technology evolves even more quickly, companies look into the future for ways to develop better products, such as infotainment systems and information kiosks to better serve their customers.
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Commuters from the new Wickford Junction station, a $24.5 million multimodal facility consisting of a single-side commuter rail platform on a restored siding track, can now reach Providence in 35 minutes and Boston in less than two hours.
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San Francisco’s Muni is one of several transit operations using DHS grant monies to bolster its program with the use of video surveillance technology software that analyzes abnormal behavior, and thereby alerting systems to potential security and safety issues.
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In July, Congress passed a new two-year bill – MAP-21. Highlights contained include an expanded TIFIA program as well as streamlined New Starts and project delivery processes.
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Transit agencies’ lost and found departments catalog, store and sometimes track down the owners of items left on buses and railcars.
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Greater Good’s plan for the innovative app stems from co-founder George Aye’s experience as lead designer at CTA.
Read More →APTA releases this monthly Transit Savings Report to examine how an individual in a two-person household can save money by taking public transportation and living with one less car.
Read More →Effective immediately, state departments of transportation will have the ability to use their unspent earmarked highway funds, some of which are nearly 10 years old, on any eligible highway, transit, passenger rail or port project.
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