Rail accidents reach 10-year low, DOT says
Accidents decrease 6% from 2000.
Accidents decrease 6% from 2000.
About 2,900 management employees were offered voluntary separation and early retirement plans.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) becomes the first transit system in the nation to debut subway tunnel advertising.
A British university is offering the world's first disaster studies degree that will cover such topics as rail crashes and terrorist attacks.
To ease some of its $3 billion debt, Amtrak received permission from the U.S. Department of Transportation to use a large part of its Pennsylvania Station as collateral for a $300 million loan.
Energy conservation has been on the mind of most people lately, and intercity passenger rail is proving to be energy efficient.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is moving forward with a $309 million plan to build a light-rail line connecting downtown Los Angeles west to Culver City, a span of about nine miles.
In the past year, ridership on all forms of rail increased 5% or more, showing that investment in that mode by the federal government was put to good use, said Bill Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
In the Steel City, a light rail revival that began in the mid-1980s is accelerating with an ambitious plan to effectively double the size of the system in the next two years.
England's Railtrack asked the army for hundreds of skilled recruits to fill shortages of engineers and signaling staff.
The first passenger train between Turkey and Iraq for nearly 20 years arrived in the Iraqi city of Mosul in May.
Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp. asked a local movie maker to cut a ghost scene from her new thriller for fear it would scare away passengers, Reuters reported.
A slowdown beginning at the end of April and lasting eight weeks caused about 100 people to be temporarily laid off from Bombardier’s Plattsburgh, N.Y., plant.
The aerial tramway at Palm Springs, Calif., is one of three such in the world, and an engineering marvel.
Since its inaugural run on Dec. 11, 2000, performance and revenue numbers of Amtrak’s Acela Express have consistently improved, exceeding original expectations.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams had encouraged eclipse viewers to take mass transit to their destinations for safety and congestion relief.
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