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Funds will put an estimated 260 people to work making long-overdue improvements to the MBTA’s 50-mile Fitchburg commuter rail line, one of the state’s oldest passenger rail lines still in service. The investment will increase the train line's maximum speed by nearly 20 miles per hour, while greatly improving safety and on-time performance to 17 communities and 18 stations.
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Funding will advance the development of the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor, which will link Raleigh, N.C., to Washington, D.C. via Richmond, Va.
Read More →Report details how the corridor, carrying 750,000 daily Amtrak and commuter passengers, is a critical national asset. It also calculates that a loss of the corridor for one day would cost nearly $100 million in transportation-related impacts and productivity.
Read More →The agency will install the safety technology on its fleet of nearly seventy fixed-route vehicles.
Read More →The 10-mile extension will provide a new transportation choice for commuters to the high-tech corridor. The FTA last month approved $900 million in funds for the project.
Read More →Last month, the state legislature established a regional transit authority for Metro Detroit, in response to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s requiring one before he would release funding for M-1 light rail streetcar project.
Read More →Expert Services Grants enable recipients to hire expert professionals to develop and deliver public-private partnerships in connection with the development of a specific asset.
Read More →The transit system will spend the money completing the 5.3 mile North/Red Line extension and the 6.6 mile-Southeast/Purple Line.
Read More →Two out of three support government investment to expand and improve public transportation and twice as many people favor new transit — buses, trains, and light rail — rather than new highways as the best way to solve America’s traffic woes.
Read More →Part of the U.S. DOT's requirement for up to $25 million in capital funding is that it wants a list of potential operators for the system.
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