A federal grant and loan totalling nearly $US 1.5bn to help build the second phase of the Metro Purple Line Extension to downtown Beverly Hills and Century City was announced Jan. 5 by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA).
NEW York City celebrated the opening of a 4.4km extension of the Q Line metro from 57th Street and Seventh Avenue to 96th Street and Second Avenue in the upper east side of Manhattan on December 31, nearly a century since the project was first proposed.
WABTEC announced on December 20 that it has acquired engineered freight car components supplier Workhorse Rail, United States.
SMBC Rail Services, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitusi Banking Corporation, has agreed to acquire American Railcar Leasing, the sixth largest wagon leasing company in the United States with a fleet of 34,300.
RAIL leaders will be among the speakers at the next International Railway Summit being organised jointly by IRJ and IRITS Events in association with the International Union of Railways (UIC). The event will be held at the UIC headquarters in Paris on February 15-17 2017.
CALIFORNIA High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on December 16 for a contract to manage initial operation of its high-speed rail network.
INCREASING capacity through track quadrupling most sections and upping the frequency of regional and inter-city trains is at the heart of the United States’ Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) new recommended vision for the Northeast Corridor (NEC) released on December 16.
SOUTH Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink) signed a $C 93m ($US 69.5m) contract with Bombardier on December 16 for 28 Mark III light metro cars for Vancouver’s SkyTrain automated light metro network.
THE US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced on December 16 that it has agreed a $US 499.4m federal to help fund Fort Worth Transportation Authority’s (FWTA) $US 1bn TEX Rail project.
MIAMI Beach commissioners voted unanimously on December 14 to delay the city’s $US 244m light rail project to await confirmation of plans for the Biscayne Bay Link transit connection between Miami and Miami Beach.
