MBTA completes PTC project ahead of schedule
Service for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Newburyport/Rockport commuter rail line service is expected to resume on Sept. 2, five weeks ahead of schedule.
Service for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Newburyport/Rockport commuter rail line service is expected to resume on Sept. 2, five weeks ahead of schedule.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (SCVTA) has entered what it calls the “final and most complicated stretch of” the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Silicon Valley Extension project.
4TRANSIT has been awarded a CA$300-million (US$239.02-million) contract to provide technical advisory services for two work packages offered under Metrolinx’s 10-year Regional Express Rail (RER) Capital Program.
Joint venture Northwest Transit Systems Partners (NTSP) has been chosen to oversee the construction of two new extensions to the Sound Transit light-rail system.
The reconstruction of Fresh Pond Bridge on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) M line is on schedule for a September 1 completion.
The Bay Area Transportation Authority (BART) is utilizing interns this summer to create useful technology.
HDR was chosen to lead the final design for GoTriangle’s Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project.
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is conducting high-tech rail inspections, switch replacement and other track work between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma in the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 19.
Hanson Professional Services Inc. has acquired Engineered Rail Solutions (ERS) LLC.
Watermill Group has acquired track fastener manufacturer and distributor Cooper & Turner.
Global design firm Stantec has added Ryan Raske to its team as senior railway engineer in St. Paul, Minn.
Gannett Fleming, Inc., is expanding its Security and Safety Practice by four; joining the team is James “Jim” E. Smith, Gene Perry, Jacy C. Harper and Brandon S. Huckeba.
Union Pacific is encouraging safety at railroad tracks with its interactive public safety campaign. The Class 1 released the campaign on Facebook, YouTube, Hulu and other online news sites so it could be easily shared.
WSP USA has named Charlie Guess construction services manager for the West region of the firm, based in its Orange, Calif., office.
Following what it called a “comprehensive search process,” Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) appointed Cynthia C. Earhart as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Steven Chrismer, Ph.D., is joining the Applied Technology and Engineering Division at ENSCO, Inc.
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA-33) joined officials from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) and Skanska on August 11, to tour the recently completed Exposition Light Rail Transit Phase 2 (Expo 2) project.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) swore in its 14th chairman Robert L. Sumwalt III on August 10.
Amtrak selected AECOM, in partnership with Network Rail, to conduct an independent review of the interaction, coordination and collaboration between the railroads’ various passenger concourses within Penn Station.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has selected Cianbro-Middlesex Joint Venture for the CP243 Interlocking and Danbury Branch Dockyard projects in Norwalk.