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Teamsters Local 104 continues strike against Sun Tran
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 14, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters Local Union 104’s Unfair Labor Practice strike against Sun Tran is now nearing the end of its eighth day with the striking employees and their supporters...
Reduced oil train volume in Albany amid oil glut, price collapse
(Source: Albany Times Union, August 13, 2015) ALBANY, N.Y. — As crude oil prices continue to plunge this year, the flow of oil trains coming into the Port of Albany from the oil fields of North Dakota appears to be slowing down a bit. Full story: Albany Times Union
Cuomo has no plan to attend Gateway tunnel meeting with Foxx
(Source: Bloomberg, August 13, 2015) NEW YORK — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won’t attend a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to discuss reviving Amtrak’s Gateway tunnel project under the Hudson River. Full story: Bloomberg
Can transportation alliance get Gateway project going?
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 13, 2015) NEW YORK — As the governors of New Jersey and New York struggle to head off urgent calls to prevent an interruption of cross-Hudson rail travel, a U.S. senator and a prominent transit advocate are proposing that the...
Blumenthal: Push railroads to install Positive Train Control
(Source: Hartford Courant, August 13, 2015) HARTFORD, Conn. — With most railroads telling the federal government that they won't meet the deadline for installing crash-avoidance systems, Sen. Richard Blumenthal wants to try more than simply issuing fines and new...
‘Transportation armageddon’ is coming to the Northeast Corridor
(Source: City Lab, August 13, 2015) NEW YORK — In January 2011, Senator Chuck Schumer warned that disinvestment in rail infrastructure between New York and New Jersey could cause a decline in the region’s economic viability. That was shortly after New Jersey Governor...
AAR: Weekly rail traffic down 0.9 percent compared to 2014 for week ending August 8
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, August 12, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Aug. 8, 2015. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 562,884...
Florida high-speed rail project challenged by archaeologist
(Source: Reuters, August 12, 2015) MIAMI — A prominent Florida archaeologist says crews working on a high-speed rail project to connect Miami and Orlando failed to tell regulators about plans to dig near an ancient Native American site that he complains has disturbed...
Shipping oil through pipelines safer than by rail, report says
(Source: Globe and Mail, August 13, 2015) TORONTO — Oil shipments by rail are 4 1/2 times more likely to have a spill or incident than those pumped through a pipeline, says a report from the Fraser Institute, which examined data from Canada’s Transportation Safety...
MARC replacing electric locomotive fleet with high-speed diesels
(Source: Railway Age, August 12, 2015) NEW YORK — The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has decided to phase out its 10-unit fleet of AEM7 and HHP8 electric locomotives used for MARC regional/commuter rail service and replace them with eight new 125-mph “Charger”...
