Amtrak President and CEO Wick Moorman urged a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security to invest in the carrier's infrastructure, fleet, and stations.
According to updated analyses done by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the commuter rail industry continues to make significant progress on implementing positive train control (PTC) and is on schedule to meet the congressional deadline of December 2018.
On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Recode Senior Transportation Editor Johana Bhuiyan spoke with outgoing Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. In a wide-ranging conversation, the two discussed, among other things, the practice of public-private partnerships, the place of government in local infrastructure and the role of self-driving cars in the future of transportation.
Driving is a choice, and provided that drivers pay all the costs associated with making that choice, there's little reason to object to that. After all, very few people think that a zero car world is one that makes a lot of sense. Low-car makes much more sense that non-car as a policy talking point. How do we get people to make these choices.
The ridership surge followed the opening of new stations serving Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, the University of Washington and SeaTac, Wash., according to a Sound Transit press release.
Metrorail ridership continued its steep decline over the last part of 2016, driven largely by the disruptive SafeTrack reconstruction program, according to documents prepared for the transit authority's board of directors. The new financial figures will be discussed at a public meeting on Thursday.
When federal officials imposed financial penalties on the region to force action on safety oversight of Metro, the impact was felt 200 miles away at a midsize transit agency in Southside Virginia. Since the announcement, Brandon Singleton, chief financial officer for Hampton Roads Transit, has been poring over the agency's budget, trying to figure out how the agency can make temporary administrative cuts and delay capital projects to cover a short-term budget shortfall without cutting bus, light-rail, ferry and paratransit services.
RTA and City of Cleveland officials on Monday began test runs of buses through Public Square. They were testing, among other things, turning radiuses and clearances, RTA CEO Joe Calabrese said. The three buses running on Superior Avenue through the square were out of service during the testing.
During November and December of last year, Transport for London tracked the phones of any London Underground passengers who had their WiFi on. And while that might sound like a nightmare in the category of Big Data = Big Brother, a Freedom of Information Act filed by Gizmodo UK reveals some findings of that mass cull - with implications for route improvement along with the expected ads.
Two House Representatives from New Jersey unveiled legislation that would require greater transparency about train safety audits after the deadly train crash in Hoboken, N.J. last year, The Hill reports. The measure would require the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Federal Transit Administration to notify lawmakers if they conduct any safety audits on railroads or rail transit agencies. It also would require federal agencies to submit a report to Congress detailing the results of the investigation within 90 days of the audit's completion.
A $32 million infrastructure project in downtown Chicago to create dedicated bus lanes and improve bus shelters is done, but the city of Chicago and its police are not enforcing the laws they made to make that system run.
If projections about the impacts of climate change hold true, strong storms and rising tides will be the new normal for Bay Area residents, resulting in devastating impacts to the region's critical transportation infrastructure if nothing is done to protect low-lying areas.
In a major blow to a 15-year-long effort to modernize Caltrain, federal transit officials on Friday said they are withholding $647 million the agency was counting on this month to start work on a project to electrify the train line between San Francisco and San Jose.
With a coalition of tech millionaires and billionaires, politicians and investment groups behind the renewed push, it seems plausible high-speed rail could finally move from fantasy to reality in the Northwest. The idea is at least real enough that Washington Governor Jay Inslee put $1 million in his proposed budget to fund a feasibility study.
Considering that Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have all declared themselves sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants, Trump's reprisals could end up canceling or delaying major infrastructure projects in some of the nation's most congested areas - even as the administration touts a $1 trillion proposal to rebuild the United States' roads, railroads, bridges and airports.
