TORONTO – The Ontario government is taking the next step in building the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in awarding a contract to construct an elevated portion of the Extension.
HONOLULU – Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has reached a $59.9 million settlement with rail contractor STG.
CHICAGO – The National Transportation Safety Board has released details on a collision between a Chicago Transit Authority Yellow Line train and a rail-bound snow removal machine.
SAN FRANCISCO – Valley Transportation Authority has been awarded a $2,982,471 grant from the State of California Wildlife Conservation Board to reuse excavated material from the BSVII Project.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority gave an update on its work along the Green Line Extension (GLX).
RICHMOND, Va. – The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) announced it was awarded a grant totaling $729 million from the FRA via the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program (FSP-National).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced it has awarded $8.2 billion for 10 passenger rail projects.
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. – Robert “Bob” Cigrang, Vice President of Sales for Omni Rail Products, died Dec. 3. He was 74.
BOSTON – The MBTA has completed Green Line track work and removed 12 speed restrictions. Also, it has shortened two speed restrictions on the Green Line E branch between Prudential and Copley stations.
RICHMOND, Va. – VPRA selects Skanska/Flatiron Joint Venture for the Long Bridge-North Package and Flatiron/Herzog Joint Venture for the Franconia-Springfield Bypass
CHICAGO – Chicago Transit Authority announced it has begun its final major stage of its Red and Purple Modernization (RPM) Phase One Project with the North Belmont Red-Purple Reconstruction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden Administration has approved $3 billion for Brightline West high-speed rail project to connect Las Vegas and Southern California.
CALGARY, Alberta – The Calgary LRT has begun running as of December 4th after it was shut down on November 24th, so crews could continue construction in the Victoria Park/Stampede station rebuild.
Plans for light rail technology and expansion of existing rail systems dominated a conference with a New Jersey flavor, held in Jersey City and sponsored by Railway Age and its sibling publication Railway Track & Structures (RT&S). The conference took place on Wednesday, November 15 and Thursday morning, November 16, and concluded that afternoon with a tour of New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit (HBLRT), which now operates in Hudson County with plans to expand northward into Bergen County.
BOSTON ––Ridership totals bolstered by Halloween travel to Salem and Fairmount Line ridership boost during the Ashmont – Mattapan closure.
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario – Metrolinx reports on its progress on its Hazel McCallion Line and Port Credit GO Station.
BALTIMORE – Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail is working toward a high-speed magnetic levitation train from Washington D.C. to New York by way of Baltimore.
BOSTON – The MBTA has finished track work on the Red Line between JFK/UMass and Park Street and has subsequently removed nine speed restrictions.
California High-Speed Rail Authority released an update video of construction progress across 10 structures it completed this year.
ENSCO Rail, Inc. on Nov. 17 reported receiving a contract for its track geometry and rail wear measurement technology from private-sector railroad Brightline, which operates intercity passenger service between central and south