The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that the agency will complete switch replacement and Communications-Based Train Control related work along the A, C, and E8 Avenue line during Presidents’ Day weekend.
Bay Area Rapid Transit commemorated the completion of a multi-year upgrade project at Oakland’s 19th Street Station with a ribbon cutting on Jan. 21.
A new study from New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine has found that subway stations near river tunnels can have much greater quantities of potentially harmful particles, a phenomenon known as the “river-tunnel effect.”
Last month, onlookers witnessed the roughly 1,000-foot relocation of a two-story building that was previously part of a CSX train depot to the intersection of Maple Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Hamilton, Ohio.
A new project study has found that the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Purple Line—currently 4.5 years behind schedule—faces a further seven-month delay that could set back the opening of the light-rail line until mid-2027.
Metrolinx crews are continuing work on the Hazel McCallion Line in Brampton and Mississauga along Hurontario Street, the transit agency announced this week.
The Orange County Transportation Authority’s San Clemente slope stabilization project is facing further delays to restore its service between San Diego and Orange counties following several days of heavy rain.
While this is a local story, and the KC Streetcar is a comparatively small operation, it’s nice to report some encouraging news about growth in ridership and the increasing vibrance of a downtown area.
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) passengers in Marin and Sonoma counties faced delays Jan. 17, a day after heavy flooding in Novato, California, closed the train tracks near Hanna Ranch Road.
Metrolinx announced on Jan. 18 that tunneling for Scarborough’s 4.8-mile subway expansion has begun.
New conflicts between the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and its regulator have called into question the effectiveness of an oversight arrangement established by Congress six years ago to make service safer, lawmakers say.
Joint venture partners Arcadis and Mott MacDonald (AMM JV) on Jan. 17 reported that they will serve as Construction Management Support Services consultant for the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project at LA Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority).
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has selected Skanska, a New York-based construction and development firm, to make circulation improvements at Grand Central-42nd Street Terminal, which serves MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA
The Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) will be closing 59th Street Station Saturday, Feb. 4 and Sunday, Feb. 5 due to construction efforts for the low-floor station modification of the station, part of the agency’s Light Rail Modernization Project.
Amtrak is seeking Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) approval to retire fixed wayside signals as automatic block points on the Mid-Atlantic Division’s Philadelphia-to-Washington, line (a Northeast Corridor branch), according to a notice in the Federal Register’s Jan. 17 edition.
Bay Area Rapid Transit’s Yellow Line in the East Bay will be the focus of significant trackway repairs come February.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and Rhode Island Public Transit Authority announced Jan. 9 that the opening date for the new Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center will be Jan. 23.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that it will hold three community open houses this month for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project, a massive project to construct a heavy rail line or monorail between the San Fernando Valley and the West Los Angeles area south of the Santa Monica mountains.
A first-of-its-kind agreement struck Jan. 9 by the heads of the transit systems in Chicago and Philadelphia is intended to make it simpler for minority-owned companies to do business with both systems.
With an anticipated completion date in the fall of 2025, work is underway for a new $65 million train station project in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.