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MTA proposes budget reform
(The following article by Caren Halbfinger was published by the White Plains Journal News on May 14.) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday announced proposed changes in the way the agency prepares and...
Via route to include bus links
(The London Free Press posted the following article on its website on May 14.) LONDON -- Via Rail passengers traveling between Toronto and Chicago on weekdays will be required to board buses for a short stretch of the trip. Anyone traveling from Chicago to Toronto...
Temporary PATH station at World Trade Center now set to open in November
(Newsday pubslished the following article on May 14.) TRENTON, N.J. -- The PATH rail line and temporary station linking the World Trade Center and New Jersey will reopen in November, a month earlier than expected. The station served 65,000 daily commuters before it...
SEPTA unfit for emergencies?
(Philadelphia television station WPVI posted the following Associated Press article on its website on May 14.) PHILADELPHIA -- A recent survey by SEPTA police found that nearly one of every four subway and elevated stations on the Broad Street Line and the...
Rail proposal OK met with disgust
(The following article by Mary Alys Cherry was published by the Clear Lake Citizen on May 14.) CLEAR LAKE, Tex. -- The Surface Transportation Board's approval of the proposed 12.8-mile San Jacinto Rail line around Clear Lake City, while expected, was still met with...
UP fined $100,000 by Arizona commission
(The Arizona Republic posted the following article by Edythe Jensen on its website on May 14.) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- In unprecedented action against a national railroad company, the Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday fined Union Pacific $100,000 and ordered it to...
Md. blames Amtrak for idle locomotives
(Maryland television station WBAL posted the following story on its website on May 13. A video download of this report is available at:http://www.thewbalchannel.com/travelgetaways/2197596/detail.html) ESSEX, Md. -- The state of Maryland spent $36 million of taxpayer...
Group’s president calls for expanded passenger rail service
(The following article by Vince Devlin was published by the Missoulian on May 14.) MISSOULA, Mont. -- Amtrak is again under attack. Taxpayers spend $1 billion a year keeping the passenger rail service afloat, and it's become an easy target for critics. The Bush...
Derailment still being cleaned up
(CBC Montreal posted the following article on its website on May 13.) MONTREAL -- A train derailment near Manseau, Que. has disrupted passenger and freight traffic. No injuries were reported when 19 platforms carrying shipping containers came off their tracks, 75...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mineta to announce Surface Transportation Reauthorization proposal
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, May 14, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta will unveil the Bush Administration’s surface transportation reauthorization proposal, the "Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003." WHO: U.S....
