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SEPTA ordered to keep transfers
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on August 17.) PHILADELPHIA — The transfers live. A Common Pleas Court judge ruled yesterday that SEPTA must not eliminate the paper transfers that permit bus and subway riders to...
Ariz. commuter rail system on track to reality
(The following story by Sarah J. Boggan appeared on the East Valley Tribune website on August 17.) PHOENIX — The first study that could actually put commuter rail on track in the Valley is speeding ahead. The idea of commuter rail as a mass-transit option in the...
Opinion: Railroad security still needs upgrades
(The following column by Jim Kouri appeared on the Conservative Voice website on August 17.) The July 2005 London subway bombings and July 2006 railway attacks in Mumbai, India dramatically revealed the vulnerability of passenger rail and other surface transportation...
Boy, 16, electrocuted in Amtrak yard
(The following story appeared on the Times Ledger website on August 17.) ASTORIA, N.Y. — Amtrak officials said that a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition Saturday after being electrocuted while trespassing in a rail yard operated by the company. The boy and two...
Opinion: Florida’s tax collection goes off rails
(The following editorial appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on August 17.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Somewhere along the line, Florida lost track of a railroad. The railroad didn't mind, but the blunder cost taxpayers millions and is another example of the...
Locomotive engineer pens book
(The following report appeared on the Palladium-Item website on August 17.) RICHMOND, Ind. — As trains are making a comeback in hauling coal and other supplies through the area, an Indiana author provides a chance to look back at the history of railroads. Jack Young,...
AAR: Rail freight traffic down in most recent week
(The Association of American Railroads issued the following on August 16.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was off slightly during the week ended August 11 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American Railroads...
NJ Transit: Light Rail driver wasn’t at fault
(The following story by Charles Hack appeared on the Jersey Journal website on August 17.) JERSEY CITY, N.J. — An internal investigation by NJ Transit has cleared the train driver and NJ Transit of wrongdoing in an accident at the Ninth Street Hudson-Bergen Light Rail...
Feds pledge $64.2M to tighten transit security
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 17.) NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey will get a share of nearly $64.2 million in U.S. Homeland Security funds aimed at securing mass transit and ports in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan regions, state...
DHS awards $110 million on port security funding
(The American Association of Port Authorities issued the following on August 16.) ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) hailed the announcement today from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it has made available an...
