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News•by Staff•April 4, 2011

West Virginia receives $1M for state rail plan

The plan will inventory existing freight and passenger rail lines in the state and analyze the potential for new freight, high-speed, intercity and commuter corridors, including tourist railroads.

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News•by Staff•April 4, 2011

Ohio breaks ground on ARRA-funded multimodal transit center

Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority’s $20 million Central Gateway Multimodal Facility will create an estimated 266 jobs in the construction trades and will serve as the centerpiece of a public-private $80 million investment to revitalize Kent’s downtown area. The economic development effort is expected to create more than 700 new long-term jobs.

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News•by Staff•April 4, 2011

TriMet to complete security camera installation

A $1.2 million Transportation Security Administration grant will help the agency to add closed circuit television cameras at the 10 remaining MAX stations currently without them. The grant also will fund security improvements at some facilities.

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News•by Staff•April 1, 2011

Metrolinx taps Sumitomo for DMUs

The vehicles are scheduled for delivery in 2014 and will be the first vehicle delivery to Canada for the Sumitomo Corp. of America/ Nippon Sharyo team.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

FRA issues final impact statement on Vegas HSR

Clears the way for final permitting and construction groundbreaking, possibly as early as December, the on "DesertXpress" project.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

Dallas’ DART honored for rail design-build projects

The Design-Build Institute of America presented the agency with its "2011 Transportation Owner of the Year Award" for advancing awareness, understanding and use of the design-build project delivery method in the transportation sector, in particular with its the Orange Line and Blue Line light rail projects.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

Caltrans awards $78M to transit, air quality projects

Funding comes from a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, which includes $3.6 billion to improve public transit in California.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

Metrolinx buys portion of Canadian National rail line

Line is composed of the two- and three-track rail corridor east of Union Station in downtown Toronto to a junction near Whites Road in Pickering, Ont., where the line connects with GO Transit's separate rail right-of-way.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

Toronto Transit Commission loses strike rights

Ontario, Canada’s Liberal provincial government voted to make transit an essential, uninterruptible service and rushed the bill through the legislature to ensure it was in place before the current contract with the city and the ATU expired.

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News•by Staff•March 31, 2011

Va. conservative pushes for more transit

Public transit is essential to the conservative agenda, since it promotes economic development, national security and a sense of community, the director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation said during a speech Wednesday at a high-speed rail event.

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