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Rebuilding the commuter train line over the Ben Franklin Bridge will cost $102.8 million. However, other recent construction projects, including the Walt Whitman Bridge redecking, were less expensive than planned.
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Completion of the first six-miles and delivery of 60 vehicles for the mostly elevated Neihu Line is anticipated in the summer of 2007.
Read More →The contract includes 78 double-deck coaches and nine locomotives, with delivery expected to take place between May 2006 and the end of 2007.
Read More →Amsted Rail will provide complete, assembled bogie systems, plus couplers, draft gears, and crash energy management systems.
Read More →Projects in California, North Carolina, Ohio and Maryland received $194 million; $17 million; $14.9 million and $9.4 million, respectively.
Read More →Portland has found that playing classical music at the stations discourages loitering and crime. A bill in the Oregon Legislature, if passed, will expand the program to all light rail stops in high-crime areas in three neighboring counties.
Read More →The Central Valley stretch, which was approved by the federal Surface Transportation Board will stretch from Fresno to Bakersfield.
Read More →If successful, metro Atlanta will be a single file of major economic development up and down what is now Georgia 400, built along a rail line that would link Alpharetta with downtown Atlanta and its airport beyond.
Read More →Groundbreaking on the first 29-mile segment of the $68 billion project takes place in Fresno, Calif. today.
Read More →Orange County (Calif.) Transportation Authority’s quiet zone program work included the enhancement of 52 railroad crossings and helped silence train horns for local communities.
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