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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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Reviews a transit service contracting approach new to the U.S., and its effects on the service provision and transit users' perception of service quality in the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority.
Read More →U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that the state applied for $227 million for its 62-mile rail project.
Read More →The report, "Ottawa's Light Rail Transit Project Schedule Acceleration and Procurement Option Selection," also suggested the project use a design-build-maintain model.
Read More →Selected 15 states and Amtrak to receive $2.02 billion for 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects. Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak submitted nearly 100 applications.
Read More →Will provide a comprehensive service that includes a portion of the civil engineering, all the infrastructure (platform, rails, electrification, signaling, and ticketing), a workshop-depot and the central command post. Alstom also is supplying the fleet of 41 Citadis trainsets.
Read More →Added five language translation options — Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese — of critical pages, such as the Trip Planner, Getting Around and Fares.
Read More →U.S. government officials reported finding evidence of the terror group’s plot to attack a train somewhere in the United States.
Read More →The new deal includes a two-year wage freeze and shares the increases in insurance costs between ATU members and the Metropolitan Council, which operates Metro Transit. The agreement still needs approval of the Metropolitan Council.
Read More →The agency’s FasTracks program was issued a Certificate of Registration for the quality management oversight program’s systematic approach to verifying that all contractors are producing a quality project.
Read More →President Richard Rodriguez appealed to U.S. House Committee members not to reduce funding, especially since the death of Osama Bin Laden may increase the risk of retaliation from his supporters. U.S. Rep. Peter King agreed that transit is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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