CHICAGO Transit Authority (CTA) announced on September 9 that it will publish a draft environmental impact study (EIS) on October 6 for the proposed southern extension of the Red Line from 95th Street to 130th Street on the city’s Far South Side.

POLAND’s largest rail freight operator PKP Cargo slipped back into the red in the first-half of 2016 as a combination of “difficult” market conditions, and challenges facing Czech subsidiary AWT put the company under financial pressure.

THE six best and final bids were submitted to Israel Railways on September 28 for a contract to supply a fleet of 60 double-deck EMUs totalling 330 cars.

THE extension of the Los Angeles light rail network to Montclair moved a step closer to construction on September 28, when the board of the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority approved draft advanced conceptual engineering documents for the 19.8km line from Azusa.

CANADA’s export credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), has agreed to provide Angola with a $US 429.5m loan to finance the purchase of 100 locomotives from General Electric (GE), according to an authorisation granted by presidential order.

BALFOUR Beatty has purchased Omnicom Engineering, a British company specialising in on-board video and laser surveying, inspection and monitoring systems, for an undisclosed sum.

SOCIÉTÉ du Grand Paris (SGP), the public company managing planning and construction of the €25bn Grand Paris orbital express metro network, has awarded two contracts with a total value of €414m for civil works on Line 15 South.

CHENNAI International Airport joined the Indian city’s metro network on September 21, with the inauguration of the 8.6km second phase of Line 1 (Blue Line) from Little Mount.

BRITISH design agency PriestmanGoode has unveiled two train seating concepts which seek to maximise capacity and comfort for passengers on services which frequently suffer from overcrowding.