Urban Engineers hires Fedun to lead rail, transit
Urban Engineers has hired Peter Fedun, PE, as the firm’s new deputy practice leader for rail and transit.
Urban Engineers has hired Peter Fedun, PE, as the firm’s new deputy practice leader for rail and transit.
The pot of cash available to contractors, engineers and other rail-service providers in California just got bigger. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) announced last week that the California Transportation Commission (CTC) will
Are you a rail project manager looking for a challenge? Wilmington, NC, wants to talk with you. The city is recruiting for a full-time project manager to oversee a complicated rail-realignment project involving
Sound Transit has named Ron Lewis as its executive director of Design, Engineering and Construction Management (DECM).
Alstom won a three-year, $56 million (50 million euros)) extension to its Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) services contract with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). Under the terms of the deal, Alstom manages
The New York City subway boosted speeds on two lines over the weekend and will increase speeds of other trains in the coming months, according to a story in The New York
Long-time colleagues and fellow Englishmen Andy Byford and Pete Tomlin, who worked together on the London Underground and Toronto Transit Commission, will once again join forces, this time at MTA New York
Montreal’s Réseau express métropolitain light-rail project (REM) has reached another milestone as work begins on the first of the system’s 26 stations and elevated-track sections. According to a report in the Montreal Gazette,
The city of Chicago is approaching its goal of controlling abandoned railroad tracks that span through Goose Island, according to Chicago Tribune reporting.
The Federal Railroad Administration has certified a system-wide signals upgrade by the Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) transit system as meeting all the requirements for Positive Train Control (PTC). The move comes several
The Durham, NC, city council gave unanimous approval Monday to a proposal to rezone a piece of land in the southwest corner of the city for a light-rail operations and maintenance facility.
Valley Metro, in partnership with the city of Tempe, Ariz., has received the full $75 million in funds allocated through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Capital Investment Grants (CIG) in support of
Brightline, Florida’s intercity higher-speed rail system, received approval from the state Nov. 28 to negotiate for land to add high-speed passenger rail service from Orlando to Tampa.
The National Safety Council is honoring infrastructure specialist Parsons as the sole 2018 finalist for its Robert W. Campbell Award.
Amtrak has narrowed to four teams in its search for a master developer for its Northeast Corridor station project in Philadelphia.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit (NY Transit) will later this week begin the next phase of a project to bring full accessibility to its Greenpoint Av G Subway
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has announced that its fare payment for the past four decades, the Metropass, is being discontinued.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Nov. 21 issued a final rule establishing what it’s calling “modern, performance-based safety standards for railroad passenger equipment.”
Proposals for a second rail tunnel beneath San Francisco Bay were discussed at a meeting of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board of directors on Nov. 15.
The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) has started the construction of its 2.4-mile Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension, which will extend the current rail line from the Theatre District in