On Wednesday, Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) had approved their joint merger application. Although the railways said it ...
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The Department of Transportation recently recommended the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Silicon Valley Phase II Project receive $500 million in funding. The project is one of 18 large transit pro...
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), a nonprofit organization of more than 1,500 public and private sector members, announced the winners of the 2023 Advocacy Champion Awards on Tues...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) said it is proposing major investments into rail safety and rail infrastructure as it continues to look into concerns arising from Norfolk Southern’s d...
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Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission (SRC) will partner to apply federal funds to study a new service between New York City, Atlanta, and Dallas/Fort Worth. The service would be created by exten...
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) recently released a statement supporting President Joe Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget request. When combined with advance appropria...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently recommended 18 large rail and bus rapid transit projects in 11 states to receive $4.45 billion in President Joe Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Re...
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Siemens Mobility, a passenger rolling stock manufacturer, plans to construct a $220 million advanced manufacturing and rail services facility in Lexington, N.C. The selected site will be a passeng...
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The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) recently awarded nearly $5 million to nine short line rail maintenance and rehabilitation projects through the Short Line Rail Improvement Fund (SLRIF) p...
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A new federal initiative would provide inspections on rail routes that carry high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs) and trains carrying large volumes of hazmat commodities. The Federal Railroad Admin...
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), a nonprofit organization representing all modes of public transportation, recently sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urgin...
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), serving residents in New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York state, and Connecticut, recently held a grand opening ceremony for its Grand Cen...
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Brightline West, a private provider of intercity passenger rail service, recently reached an agreement with several craft rail unions to use highly skilled union labor in jobs required to operate and ...
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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, wants answers about safety from railroads. In a letter to seven of the largest railroad comp...
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U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) announced Monday they had reintroduced legislation to incentivize investment into safer freight railcar manufacturing in the United States. ...
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U.S. Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight and Ports chairman, recently sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commi...
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently released $55.9 million in historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding to Rhode Island to enhance public transit across the state. Publi...
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President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Tuesday the recipients of the administration’s new National Infrastructure Project Assistant (Mega) discretionary grant prog...
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California recently awarded more than $2.5 billion to 16 ongoing public transportation projects through the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP). “These historic investments in tran...
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Florida recently launched the Moving Florida Forward initiative to expedite transportation projects over the next four years. The initiative would invest a total of $7 billion to allow the state’...
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