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Zone & Region: California
Feds give California authority to complete environmental reviews; potentially saving time and money NEWSWIRE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two months after the Federal Railroad Administration announced it was cancelling a nearly $1 billion grant to help build California’s high-speed rail project, state officials on Thursday announced an agreement with the Federal Railroad Administration that removes a significant obstacle to building it. The FRA has signed over its environmental review […]
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California town holds ‘Wig Wags Forever’ festival to celebrate restoration of signals NEWSWIRE
Wig-wag signals in downtown Richmond, Calif., are being restored to operating condition. Google Street View RICHMOND, Calif. — Richmond will hold a “Wig Wags Forever” festival on Sunday, celebrating the restoration to operating condition of two of the nearly extinct grade-crossing protection devices. The signals, near 1 West Richmond Ave. at a grade crossing in Point […]
Cost estimates soar for LA’s Sepulveda Pass transit line NEWSWIRE
LOS ANGELES — A rail transit line over Sepulveda Pass, connecting the San Fernando Valley and LA’s Westside, could cost almost $14 billion, significantly higher than previous estimates, the Los Angeles Times reports. The figures for the route paralleling the traffic-choked 405 Freeway were released Tuesday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. LA Metro is studying […]
LA Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line nears completion NEWSWIRE
LA Metro’s new Southwestern Yard will service Green Line and Crenshaw Line trains. LA Metro The Crenshaw line begins its dive below ground at the edge of LA International Airport. LA Metro An artist’s rendering of the planned Airport Metro Connector at LA International Airport, due to open in 2023. Los Angeles World Airports Part […]
Caltrain announces business plan through 2040; plans on tripling ridership NEWSWIRE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — After more than a year of staff work and public meetings along the San Francisco Peninsula, Caltrain today released a draft business plan for its next two decades calling for up to $25 billion in capital investments to triple its ridership to more than 180,000 passengers per weekday. The plan, which […]
Silver Lady salute
A row of Sycamore trees marks the passage of the California Zephyr behind Western Pacific F units at Union Park in Stockton, Calif., on Feb. 13, 1967. That day, regulators in Washington, D.C., voted to keep the train running, which WP continued to do until 1970. Tom Taylor photo […]
Metrolink adds McIntyre as ‘strategy officer’ NEWSWIRE
LOS ANGELES – Todd McIntyre will join Metrolink as chief strategy officer, the commuter railroad has announced. McIntyre joins Metrolink after three years at the District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation, where he was an advisor on strategic direction and decision making. Before that, he was a transportation specialist at the Federal Railroad Administration, where […]
LA Metro begins weekend shut-downs to prepare for Olympics NEWSWIRE
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has suspended weekend service on its light rail Green Line between the Crenshaw and Redondo Beach stations as part of the work to connect the Green Line with the new Crenshaw/LAX line. The suspension began Friday evening. It will resume every Friday at 9 p.m., ending […]
California quakes shift tracks on desert short line; repairs expected to take at least a week NEWSWIRE
Trona, Calif. Federal Railroad Administration Safety Map; TRAINS: Steve Sweeney LOS ANGELES — Trona Railway officials are still surveying damage to the company’s track and structures from back-to-back earthquakes July 4 and 5, but officials tell Trains they are already looking at a serious track displacement of about three feet on their main line a […]
Grand jury report blasts San Jose-area transit agency’s inefficiency NEWSWIRE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A grand jury report has blasted the San Jose area’s public transit system as “one of the most expensive and least efficient … in the country,” the San Jose Mercury News reports. The report released last week says the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which operates bus and light rail systems, […]
