The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), a group of more than 1,500 organizations, opposes the House Appropriations Committee’s Budget Resolution for fiscal year 2018 which would cut f...
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A bill that would make permanent a tax credit that assists short line railroads in upgrading their track and bridges so they can handle modern freight cars recently achieved a bicameral majority Congr...
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Delaware’s Department of Transportation (DelDOT) recently held a ground-breaking ceremony for its Newark Regional Transportation Center. The project, funded by a $10 million TIGER IV Grant from t...
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The Mississippi Transportation Commission (MTC) recently announced that it approved funding for more than 20 multimodal projects in Mississippi’s Northern Transportation District. “The projects...
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The Fiscal Year 2018 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) Appropriations bill, currently under consideration by the House T-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee, will advance several crucia...
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The U.S. House Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations (T-HUD) Subcommittee recently considered advancing the Fiscal Year 2018 T-HUD Appropriations bill. The bill provides more ...
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The Transportation Trades Department (TTD), a coalition of 32 member unions, recently sent a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) responding to automated locomotive technology. “TT...
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Amtrak’s Board of Directors on Tuesday named Richard Anderson as the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Anderson will begin his tenure with Amtrak on July 12. The company said...
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U.S. Reps. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL), co-chairs of the House Public Transit Caucus, recently introduced bipartisan legislation to better secure the country’s public transit sys...
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An inflatable plug designed to prevent subway tunnel flooding was recently demonstrated for the media in a full-scale, mock subway tunnel in Frederica, Delaware. The Resilient Tunnel Plug (RTP) is ...
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The U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development recently questioned U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on infrastructure cuts. Propo...
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The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) has scheduled a "Rally For Trains" campaign for June 23 to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget. Rallies have been sched...
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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently awarded $197 million in competitive grant funding to commuter and ...
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New Jersey Transit Corp. recently was awarded a $10 million federal grant through the Positive Train Control Grant Program. Positive Train Control improves safety by providing an automated backup s...
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The Trump Administration’s proposed federal budget would cut funding for Amtrak as well as reduce funding to other transit and transportation programs. Under the budget proposal, funding to Amtra...
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The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently announced its support of the federal Full Funding Grant Agreement which supports the Caltrain Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project...
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U.S. investment firm Blackstone recently unveiled a plan to launch a $40 billion investment vehicle aimed at rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure, to be anchored by a $20 billion contributio...
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Information-technology and avionics company Rockwell Collins has completed nine months of test flights on an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which could be used with railway lines. The UAS performs...
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Infrastructure in the U.S. recently received a grade of D+ from the U.S. Society of Civil Engineer’s Infrastructure Report Card. Railways received the highest grade, a B, while lowest grade was t...
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International nonprofit organization American Public Transportation Association (APTA) recently commended the U.S. Congress for completing negotiations of the fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill and ...
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