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Newsby StaffOctober 9, 2024

California Awards $206M to Clean Transportation Projects

The funding brings the state’s total investment in these projects to more than $1 billion in the last decade.

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Newsby StaffJuly 24, 2024

SacRT Lands 3 State Grants for Mobility Projects

The planning grants will help SacRT improve safety, help residents make better transit connections, and meet the mobility needs of the growing region.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseFebruary 15, 2024

Stadler to Build More Hydrogen Trains for California

With this contract award and the other successes in the US, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Lithuania, Stadler once again confirms its position in alternative and ecological drive systems with batteries and hydrogen as over 150 trains with battery or hydrogen drives have been sold to date.

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NewsMay 12, 2021

Monterey-Salinas Transit to Add Contactless Payment Options

The initiative is part of the Caltrans-led California Integrated Travel Project to improve travel planning and transit payments throughout the state.

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Newsby StaffMay 15, 2020

Feasibility study finds tunnel could improve rail connection between San Diego-L.A.

Realigning the LOSSAN line by constructing a tunnel would shorten the rail route between the two cities by approximately three miles and reduce travel time by six to seven minutes.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 24, 2020

Revamped Calif. station to enhance pedestrian safety

Improvements include a pedestrian undercrossing, lengthened passenger platforms, and fencing between tracks for added safety.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 22, 2020

Metrolink completes $32M train station modernization project

The theme of the Van Nuys Station honors the long-closed General Motors assembly plant, which from 1947 to 1992 produced cars.

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Newsby StaffDecember 10, 2018

California's SamTrans to study express bus service feasibility

Service aims to improve mobility options and ease freeway congestion in San Mateo County and launch as a pilot in mid-2019.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 5, 2018

Calif. approves $2B in funding for infrastructure, rail projects

Funding includes more than $1.3 billion in funding toward nearly 150 transportation projects for additional maintenance, improvements, and construction throughout California.

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Newsby StaffMarch 30, 2016

Calif. DOT receives FRA grant to separate railroad tracks, road

On Feb. 24, 2015, a Metrolink train derailed when it struck an abandoned truck near the crossing where the bridge will be built, killing the engineer and injuring 33 others.

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