A plan to overhaul New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority operations and funding mechanism has major implications for rail construction, maintenance and signals companies.
Hitendra (Hiten) Patel, PE, former Deputy Chief of Construction and Design Engineering with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), has joined global design and engineering firm Stantec as a principal and
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, builder of subway cars for U.S. cities including New York and Washington, may exit the business amid mounting losses and an increasingly difficult market.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced that Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) crews will begin work to replace the Buckram Road Bridge in Locust Valley starting this Friday evening, Oct. 5, through
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) announced that crews performed work to install nearly 588 tons of new rail on the Port Jefferson Branch this past weekend and replaced a switch on the
A project that added a second track along a 13-mile stretch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to allow reverse peak service on the Ronkonoma Line has been completed more than
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) will begin in Spring 2019 a $17.9 million initiative to upgrade its Lynbrook Station along the Babylon and Long Beach branches to harden LIRR infrastructure and
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Sept. 5, 2018, to mark the beginning of work for the $2.6-billion Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Third Track expansion, which will benefit 40 percent of LIRR
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has completed its visible railroad crossing safety initiative five months ahead of schedule.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) will relocate tracks to to create space for an entrance to a newly built tunnel to Grand Central as part of the
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has completed work to upgrade the signal system in Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside, Queens, which the company said will benefit Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) customers.
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) detailed a slate of nearly 60 actions it will take to improve the railroad’s performance through a new initiative called the LIRR Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) crews will work from the end of February through mid-May to replace crossties and install grade crossings.
