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Seattle transit agency says voters set no spending limit for rail line
SEATTLE -- Sound Transit argued in court yesterday that it has the power to collect taxes for as many years as necessary, without a spending limit, to complete the entire light-rail line voters approved in 1996, the Seattle Times reported. The 1996 plan called for a...
Suicide suspected in train fatality
BELLEVIEW, Fla. -- Authorities think a 15-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a train committed suicide, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Rosemary M. Fadden told police her son, Michael Edward Sarles, told his family and friends he was going to kill himself after...
CTA pitches downtown rail line
CHICAGO -- Chicago Transit Authority officials pitched their proposed Circle Line rapid-transit project to a City Council committee, but a couple of aldermen skewered the transit agency for purported service lapses, especially on the South and West Sides, the Chicago...
N.J. Transit links Midtown and Montclair
MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- New Jersey Transit inaugurated its Montclair Connection service today, opening a $63 million station and a stretch of track that transit officials said would add more than 4,000 new riders and cut travel times to New York City by linking two...
CPR plans drill Oct. 2 at Portage rail yard
PORTAGE, Wis. -- At 8 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) will conduct an emergency response exercise at its rail yard in Portage, Wis., the railway announced in a press release. Canadian Pacific will work with local emergency response agencies and...
Amtrak hits MBTA on commuter rail costs
BOSTON -- The MBTA's commuter rail work force is overstaffed, files nearly a quarter of all injury claims in the Northeast Corridor, and pays more overtime than any other operation in Amtrak's system, according to a letter by Amtrak CEO David Gunn to the Massachusetts...
Open skies, high-speed rail policy likely in plan to boost competition to Air Canada
OTTAWA -- The federal government will unveil its long-awaited transportation blueprint before the end of the year, which could open Canada's skies to foreign airlines and promote a shift to high-speed rail service, the Ottawa Citizen reports. Transport Minister David...
Statement by John Sweeney on lockout of West Coast dockworkers
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The AFL-CIO condemns the Pacific Maritime Association's (PMA) hasty and irresponsible decision to lock out more than 10,000 dockworkers on the West Coast. These workers are ready and willing to work. That's why, in a show of good faith, they've...
Union Pacific halts international marine containers to west ports
LOS ANGELES -- Union Pacific Corp. notified customers this weekend that it has indefinitely stopped moving international marine containers from the Midwest to the West coast ports where a lockout of dockworkers has brought to a standstill the movement of cargo,...
Port lockout could cost $1-billion a day
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A prolonged shutdown of West Coast ports could lead to empty store shelves, quiet factories and a global economic crisis, the Associated Press reported. "The collateral damage is huge," said Stephen Cohen, a regional planning professor at the...
