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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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When completed in 2019, Hawaii's most expensive public works project ever is projected to carry about 116,000 people and remove about 40,000 cars from the roadways each day.
Read More →During the joint hearing of Senate and House leaders held in Westwood, Calif., Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged innovative financing for mass transit projects.
Read More →A budget proposal presented to the transit agency's board last month estimated that between $1 million and $2 million per year could be generated selling station naming rights to corporate sponsors.
Read More →Proposals in both states to reduce the collective bargaining rights of transit workers could put federal funding in jeopardy. By law, the FTA cannot fund transit without Department of Labor certification that the collective bargaining rights of affected transit employees have not been diminished.
Read More →A spike in Web traffic around snowstorms overwhelmed the site, three times in three weeks, preventing thousands of people from accessing service alerts, schedules, and route maps.
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Boston, Jersey City, N.J., and Lincoln, Neb., are three of 15 metropolitan regions named as leaders in transportation innovation and smart transit, according to a new study from the National Resources Defense Council.
Read More →Challenges include a $300 million budget deficit, record fare hikes, a Quran burning and the expiration of the transit agency's website domain name.
Read More →Two additional Citadis Dualis trains will be delivered to the Rhône-Alpes region and to SNCF in the coming weeks. The three trains will then enter their certification phase on the Western Lyon lines to test current intake and measure electromagnetic emissions.
Read More →Since they spend nearly 20 percent of their collective budgets on administrative functions, and the national average for such spending is closer to 15 percent, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission says Bay Area agencies could merge their admin operations to cut costs.
Read More →Report also found that low-income individuals who receive transportation subsidies (such as free transit passes) have the fewest concerns, but they still report anxiety about maintaining their subsidies.
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