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The CCGS project includes the construction of six rail stations and approximately three miles of elevated guideway beginning near the Middle Street Transit Center Station and ending at the Civic Center Station.
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While the board originally planned to have the train completed by late 2016, they delayed the project due to engine problems and the testing of Positive Train Control.
Read More →In a move to curb parking space construction, the agency’s long-range planners have begun an initiative to quintuple the number of cyclists taking public transit.
Read More →Recommends prioritizing corridors with demonstrated markets, such as the Northeast and California, and exploring alternative management and financing arrangements, including separating infrastructure development from rail operations and forming public-private partnerships.
Read More →Nine companies, mostly large construction, engineering and infrastructure firms that have worked on high-speed rail elsewhere, have written letters saying they are interested in financing part of what would be the state’s largest-ever infrastructure project.
Read More →Innovative projects will teach riders, drivers and pedestrians around the country some valuable lessons on interacting safely with transit tracks.
Read More →The 67.7-mile project, known as the Cotton Belt Rail Line, will operate principally on a 54-mile DART-owned rail corridor of the same name.
Read More →Filed in federal court in San Francisco, the suit claims the U.S. DOT lacks authority to withhold the $929 million it was due.
Read More →The MR-1000 simulator makes a small physical footprint but meets the most demanding rail operator training objectives for a variety of rail types, including knowledge of rules and regulations; signal identification; route familiarization; rail operations knowledge; maintaining a schedule; and a fault workstation for isolation, diagnosis and corrective action.
Read More →The control center of a rail operation, also called the operations or command center, has come a long way since the days of the one-room dispatch office, incorporating high-tech systems for automatic vehicle tracking, emergency response, security and communications.
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