Articles Tagged with ''rail construction''

With $3 billion in construction under way and ardent foes and friends, California’s high-speed rail project chugs along

Proposition 6 in California poses as a grassroots movement to repeal recently hiked and already high gas taxes when it is something else, too: a vote against the future.

Stewards of public transportation and rail systems throughout the U.S. are facing both certain deadlines for installing positive train control (PTC) systems and uncertainty regarding the future of grants due to a proposed budget that has left some projects in limbo.

The recently unsealed whistleblower suit has triggered new scrutiny of concrete installed on 1,569 architectural panels at five stations on the $2.7B second phase of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in northern Virginia.

Boston transportation officials on May 7 unveiled an estimated $3.5-billion plan for modern Green Line trains that could potentially double the capacity of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled light-rail system.

An ongoing Boston Green Line track repair program has reduced derailments, but an aggressive maintenance program, improved safety standards and more investment are critical for avoiding more derailments and other system failures, according to a state transportation oversight report.

$2 billion Crenshaw-LAX light rail line expected to provide economic boost to L.A. neighborhoods