APTA names 2019 winners of rail safety, security awards
LIRR, Miami-Dade, and Houston Metro were top winners in safety category. DART, Sound Transit, and WMATA named tops in security.
July 1, 2019
LIRR, Miami-Dade, and Houston Metro were top winners in safety category. DART, Sound Transit, and WMATA named tops in security.
July 1, 2019
With the recent announcement of North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Washington state, 17 states have now achieved SSO Program certification.
July 10, 2018
The funding is the first installment of a potential $1.174 billion FFGA for the project, which in 2023 will extend light rail service from Northgate to Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood, Wash.
May 8, 2017
The 14.5-mile light rail extension, one element of a 50-mile system, will connect some of the region’s most populated and fastest-growing areas to Sound Transit’s existing rail system at the International District/Chinatown Station, which runs from downtown Seattle to SeaTac Airport.
January 20, 2015
Puget Sound Trip Planner app—available for Apple and Android mobile devices—allows riders to plan a trip that covers many transportation choices, including buses, rail, ferries, streetcars and water taxis
January 13, 2015
The pair reportedly used bolt cutters to detach the copper wire, entering maintenance hatches in a tunnel that runs below the elevated stretch of the light rail between the SeaTac and Rainier Beach rail stops, from November 2010 through August 2011.
May 28, 2014
The agecny's BASE program is designed to establish a security standard for individual transit system security programs and assess progress in seventeen key areas.
November 7, 2018
In December 2017, Amtrak Cascades train 501 derailed on an overpass as it entered a 30-mph curve at approximately 78 mph.
May 22, 2019
Phase I of the contract for pre-construction phase services is for approximately $1 million over a one-year period. Phase II of the contract for construction phase services, if exercised by Sound Transit, is anticipated to have an estimated value to Hill of approximately $21 million over a subsequent four-year period, for a total contract value of approximately $22 million.
January 7, 2015
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thirty-nine percent of Metro’s workforce will be eligible for retirement over the next three years and 69% of Metro employees are over the age of 40.
November 27, 2017
The Washington State Patrol is requesting that the King County Prosecutor’s Office file two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of hit and run against driver Aleksandr Rukhlin who failed to stop at a red light and caused a collision that killed two people.
May 15, 2014
Three people were killed, and dozens were injured. Federal investigators say they are looking into whether the engineer was distracted.
December 28, 2017
The Administration offered cuts to crucial programs that fund public transit infrastructure to pay for their proposed infrastructure plan.
March 19, 2018
The company surveyed 9,000 adults in nine countries.
July 30, 2021
Gannon, 47, served as interim GM from March 2016 until now. He was Metro Deputy GM from 2013-2016, and Human Resources manager for the King County DOT from 2011-2013.
October 26, 2016
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