New Jersey state officials recently introduced strategic and capital transportation plans they said would serve as the roadmap to improved reliability while driving the state’s economic growth. G...
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Transportation industry leaders told Congress this week that the industry needs liability protection and flexible funding in order to navigate the economic slow-down that resulted from the COVID-19 pa...
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As the clock winds down on the current surface transportation authorization, Democrats on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have unveiled a nearly $500 billion package design...
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Oregon will get nearly $100 million in federal funding to expand TriMet’s MAX Redline from the Beaverton Transit Center in Hillsboro. U.S. Sens Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced the funding o...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday it had awarded $891 million in funding to 12 transit infrastructure projects across the country. The projects are all part of the Capital Inv...
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Maryland lawmakers said an $8 million infusion of federal funds will aid the upgrade of a five-mile stretch of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) mainline near Baltimore, offering numerous benefits. ...
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More than $302 million in federal grant money is headed to local, state, and regional agencies to repair and rehabilitate the railroad infrastructure in nine states, officials announced Wednesday. ...
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In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, Amtrak said it needed an additional $1.475 billion in supplemental funding in Fiscal Year 2021 to maintain minimum services levels across its passenger rail network...
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Sens. Bob Menedez (D-NJ) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with other members of the New Jersey Senate Delegation, announced Tuesday more than $91.5 in funding would go toward fixing a critical component ...
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said Thursday his plan to invest more than $1 trillion over the next five years to build a high-speed rail network would create more than 2.6 million jobs and make high-speed ...
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Like most states, Illinois is grappling with how to fund transportation projects amid the slowing of cash flow due to substantially reduced statewide travel from the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s key...
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On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) called on the Federal Railroad Administration to investigate the May 18 train derailment in East Aurora, N.Y. Higgins said he hoped the FRA would thoroug...
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George Harms Construction of Farmingdale, N.J., has secured a $247 million NJ TRANSIT contract for the initial construction phase of the Raritan River Bridge replacement project. NJ TRANSIT Board o...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently released status updates on railroads’ self-reported progress as a means of gauging compliance. The March 3...
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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is asking transportation organizations for their feedback on President Donald J. Trump’s 2021 budget, as well as recently passed stimulus bills and other legislation impacti...
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Amtrak officials said the passenger railroad service is now requiring customers in stations, on trains and thruway buses wear facial coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The requirement is in conj...
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More than 14,000 New Yorkers rode the bus between 1 and 5 a.m. Wednesday, while Metropolitan Transit Authority employees shut down and cleaned the city’s subways. The first-ever closure of the s...
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The U. S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration will give more than $22 million in grants to three intercity rail projects spanning eight states. The funding, made avail...
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Despite money from the second Coronavirus stimulus act, public transportation needs another influx of cash, officials said on Friday. In a Congressional briefing, American Public Transportation As...
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Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) announced last week that a $5.45 million grant award from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to the Southern...
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