FRA Awards $16.4B for Passenger Rail Projects
Projects were selected through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program (Fed-State NEC).
Projects were selected through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program (Fed-State NEC).
The funding will help support the 1.8-mile extension of the Q line along the east side of Manhattan to 125th Street, relieving overcrowding on the Lexington Avenue Line, which transports 200,000 riders per day.
This work is part of New York City Transit (NYCT)’s Re-NEW-vation Program which utilizes planned service outages to perform station-wide repairs, enhancements, and deep cleaning.
The 189-page report provides an overview of the first five years of Measure M funding (July 2017 to June 2022), and a fresh approach to assessing sales tax revenue through an equity framework that focuses on people first and the role Measure M, and Metro by extension, play in quality-of-life outcomes.
The agency attracted its strongest ridership gains aboard its combined bus services, as well as its GoZone on-demand rideshare service.
CMSs are making it possible to centrally control content, power, and emergency broadcast capabilities for virtually every type and size of digital screen from flight information displays and overhead banners to direct-view LED video walls and menu boards.
Debuting in 1835, the St. Charles Streetcar line is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world and is registered as a National Historic Landmark by the National Historic Register in Washington, D.C.
Marc Buncher discusses Siemens current direction, the state of high-speed rail in America, and much more.
Beginning Nov. 15, Seattle’s Sound Transit Fare Ambassadors will issue violations to passengers found to be riding repeatedly without proof of payment.
In a report, the NTSB identified situations where new and emerging technologies can improve the nation’s existing positive train control, or PTC, system and benefit rail safety.
The subway recorded 2,744,462 paid rides on Saturday, October 28, the highest weekend day total since 2020.
All speed restrictions that were in place prior to the shutdown have been alleviated in this area, improving travel times by over 10 minutes for Ashmont Branch and Mattapan Line riders.
Already high ridership levels were boosted during the first week of October by great weather, out-of-town marathon runners and their friends and families, and local residents making preparations for the big race, according to CTA officials.
In addition to a new animated video, station agents from New York City Transit greeted riders at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center and Fulton Street stations to distribute commemorative anniversary stickers.
WMATA GM/CEO Randy Clarke and Board Chair Paul C. Smedberg toured the MICC during a ribbon cutting celebration for the new Metro Building at Eisenhower in Alexandria, Va.
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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