Audit says, rail traffic increased 64%
Problems are magnified by undersized bridges and tunnels, track design limits and outmoded communications sytems.
Problems are magnified by undersized bridges and tunnels, track design limits and outmoded communications sytems.
Despite the firm's financial difficulties, Alstom CEO Kron says it is performing well.
A walkout would shut down Amtrak service for 65,000 daily passengers and disrupt heavily used commuter routes across the country.
The federal government would pay $6 billion to build the rail network, and once completed, a private company would operate it.
Cost of deal for light rail cars will keep transit agency under $138-million budget.
Company will deliver 11, three-car trains to Sweden, but a plant strike in Northern Ireland has slowed production in that country.
Workers installed nearly 7,000 feet of new track to bring PATH service back to the trade center site.
In the past ten years, Amtrak has lost more than $500 million annually, and is projected to continue.
City's new light rail project will announce a 12-year, $50-million corporate sponsorship package to attach Nextel's name to the main station and one train.
Congressional negotiators approved the subsidy, $300 million more than the House of Representatives and the Bush administration supported, late Wednesday.
Forty two new trainsets, valued at $104 million, are scheduled to be delivered from March 2006 to August 2007.
The 14-mile Central Link line is scheduled for completion in 2009 and is expected to move more than 42,000 people a day by 2020.
Construction on the new links will begin in 2006 and once completed both Lisbon and Oporto will be connected to Madrid, and from there to the rest of Europe, in under three hours.
Couples caught kissing on Moscow's underground rail system could be fined under new regulations being considered by city authorities.
A clear federal mandate, government oversight and a steady source of funding were essential to its long-term survival according to a nominee.
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