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Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority’s $20 million Central Gateway Multimodal Facility will create an estimated 266 jobs in the construction trades and will serve as the centerpiece of a public-private $80 million investment to revitalize Kent’s downtown area. The economic development effort is expected to create more than 700 new long-term jobs.
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Awarded to the recently rebuilt Fox Chase Regional Rail Station, the first train station in the U.S. to receive the designation. In rebuilding, SEPTA implemented numerous eco-friendly practices, including recycling construction waste materials and using low-pollutant emitting building materials.
Read More →FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff signed the full-funding grant agreement during a ceremony at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The grant clears the way for the Connecticut DOT to begin construction of the bus rapid transit system and covers about half the total cost of the $567 million project.
Read More →The New York State Department of Transportation will provide the final design and construction of track reconfiguration and replacement and signal system improvements along Amtrak's Empire Corridor.
Read More →A favorable decision by the FTA would permit MTA to begin final engineering on the Red Line and move forward with acquiring property needed for construction.
Read More →Adding lighting at shelters and stops is expensive due to the high cost of electricity, construction costs and the periodic moving or removing of bus stops. These new solar-powered units provide a cost savings and they can be moved or relocated where they are the most effective.
Read More →CXT Inc. received a contract from the City of Calgary Light Rail Transit to supply 14,500 CXT Concrete Ties and fastening systems for use in the construction of line extensions to expand the system to the Northwest and Northeast of Calgary, Alberta.
Read More →Construction of the station is scheduled to begin in February 2010.
Read More →Expedited for Aug. 15 at the appeals court in San Francisco. However, the delayed project is still on schedule to resume construction in September after gaining approval of its archaeological surveys.
Read More →Construction of the entire 520-mile rail system will finish in 2028, with service to begin in 2029. This improved system will cost $68.4 billion in year-of-expenditure dollars.
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