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PHILADELPHIA — The delivery of 45 new Regional Rail cars for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will be delayed into 2020. The agency’s board learned of the delay at its meeting last week. At the same meeting, it approved $34.2 million in contracts to build a new station in Ardmore, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it will hold a board meeting on July 23 to determine probable cause of the Feb. 4, 2018, collision of Amtrak and CSX Transportation trains near Cayce, S.C. The engineer and conductor on the Amtrak train were killed, and more than 90 others on board required […]
Shelbi Hoover, Paul Utterback, and Dr. Helen Hudson help prepare the Crawfordsville, Ind., station on Saturday, June 29, the day before the final run of the Hoosier State. Bob Johnston Passengers and volunteers greet the final northbound Hoosier State as it arrives in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Sunday. Bob Johnston CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. — Seven passengers boarded the […]
Construction underway on an Alstom-powered fully automated transit system in Montreal. REM, Montreal This article is the last of five on transit in the U.S. and North America. Read parts One, Two, Three, and Four online. Early one morning, sometime late in 2020, more than a dozen light rail trains will come to life at […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is rolling out a feature in its Maps app that will predict how crowded your public-transit train or bus will be. The feature, announced Thursday, will be available for about 200 cities worldwide. The company has been receiving reports on crowdedness on transit from Google Maps uses since October 2019. […]
Technology resulting from a New York-Israel trade program could eventually lead to automation of New York subways, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggests. Ralph Spielman JERUSALEM — Automation software for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority could be part of a program announced Thursday by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a trade mission to Israel. Cuomo announced a […]
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy rode this NJ Transit train to a Thursday press conference touting improvements in the commuter railroad’s service, noting the train was on time and the trip was “wonderful.” Ralph Spielman SECAUCUS, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett and state Department of […]
HOUSTON — The Houston Metro transit agency is preparing to go to voters for approval of long-term transit plans, but some possible rail projects won’t be presented to voters. A proposal for a light rail line along Washington Avenue to downtown is not far enough along to be included in the first round of projects. […]
PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak is suing the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority in federal court, as it seeks a dramatic increase in rent in a dispute over land SEPTA leases along the Northeast Corridor. Since 1987, SEPTA has paid $1 a year for land along the corridor it uses for stations and parking lots; the transit agency […]
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has passed a resolution supporting the right to ban repeat criminal offenders from subways and buses. The resolution was proposed at a committee meeting on Monday by board member Sarah Feinberg, the former head of the Federal Railroad Administration [See “New York MTA to consider subway, bus […]
Passengers wait to board the Southwest Chief at Las Vegas, N.M., on Oct. 4, 2018. The Chief‘s future was a bone of contention during a Wednesday Senate hearing on Amtrak. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak president and CEO Richard Anderson told senators at a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday that Congress should require positive […]
Crowds greet a New Orleans-Jacksonville, Fla., Amtrak inspection train at Mobile, Ala., on Feb. 18, 2016. Mobile’s city council has delayed action on a motion to support the retur of Amtrak service. Bob Johnston MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile’s city council has delayed action on a proposal asking Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to commit funds to […]
