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Transit plan would connect dots downtown
NEW YORK -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has put the finishing touches on an ambitious blueprint for rebuilding the crumbled transit network beneath Lower Manhattan, proposing to unite a tangle of unlinked train lines with a huge underground...
Amtrak links some trains to the Net
BOSTON -- In yet another move to make Amtrak train travel convenient and hip, Yahoo and Amtrak today plan to create the first Internet-enabled passenger trains in the United States by placing hand-held computers with Internet access on a smattering of trains...
Mineta announces federal funding for Tasman Corridor
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta announced a grant of $12.1 million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority for the Tasman Corridor Extension Project. The Secretary also announced...
United accepts emergency labor pact
NEW YORK -- The New York Times reports that United Airlines said yesterday that it had accepted a labor settlement proposed by an emergency board appointed by President Bush, setting the stage for an agreement with its mechanics. Members of the International...
Labor board rules Overnite must ‘repudiate its unlawful conduct’
WASHINGTON -- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Overnite Transportation, the trucking subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation, must “repudiate its unlawful conduct” and refused to allow Overnite to proceed with a decertification attempt at the...
Official condemns U.K. rail strikes
LONDON -- U.K. Transport Secretary Stephen Byers has urged all sides in the rail dispute to go to arbitration, saying strikes had no place on today's railways, according to a report from BBC News. Mr Byers was speaking at a meeting of the National Rail Conference in...
BLE, Rail Labor seek to block Amtrak Reform Council
WASHINGTON -- The following was released on January 22 by the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO: The Amtrak Reform Council (ARC) has "acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner and contrary to law," eleven AFL-CIO rail unions representing the vast majority of...
TTD supports Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO's Transportation Trades Department has filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop the Amtrak Reform Council from recommending to Congress that Amtrak's monopoly on passenger rail should be broken, according to a wire service. Eleven unions asked a...
KCS, BMWE finalize contract
KANSAS CITY -- Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. has reached new labor agreements with one of the railroad unions, the Kansas City Star reports. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees has ratified four-year contracts with Kansas City Southern and one of...
Derailment cause remains a mystery
MINOT, N.D. -- Canadian Pacific Railway says it is too early to know the cause of the Friday train derailment that resulted in at least one death and dozens of injuries, the Minot Daily News reports. However, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees representatives...
