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The Mica/Shuster proposal will also give states greater control and authority over their intercity passenger rail services, currently operated by Amtrak.
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Consensus on a transportation authorization bill has been stalled since SAFTEA-LU expired in September 2009, with both the House and Senate releasing and approving two vastly different bills.
Read More →The legislation freezes funding at fiscal year 2010 levels for highway, transit and highways safety programs.
Read More →High-speed rail projects and the money needed to pay for them have been eliciting strong reactions from all sides. Tuesday's announcement of the Obama Administration’s plan to spend $53 billion over the next six years on rail infrastructure projects produced a flurry of responses, some praising the plan — others deriding it.
Read More →The tentative agreement establishes federal highway, transit and highway safety policy and keeps programs at current funding levels through the end of fiscal year 2014. If a majority of House and Senate conferees approve the conference report, both bodies are then expected to take up the measure before the end of the week, prior to the expiration of the current extension of transportation funding on June 30th.
Read More →Authorizes approximately $260 billion over five years to fund federal highway, transit and safety programs, consistent with current funding levels.
Read More →The new 7000-series railcars — the largest railcar order in CTA history — will be built by CSR Sifang America JV, which as part of its winning bid has pledged to build a brand-new rail car assembly facility in Chicago.
Read More →Although nothing new, employment generation is the renewed focus of new federal and local spending on rapid transit projects.
Read More →Will add 1,000 new cameras and upgrade more than 3,000 older-model cameras to the latest-generation high-definition models.
Read More →He had proposed placing the 457-mile route under U.S. government control and requiring competitive bidding to build tracks and run trains as fast as 220 miles per hour between Washington and Boston.
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