March 9, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.northjersey.com, March 9, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Service between Newark Penn Station and Penn Station New York has resumed after an Amtrak train hit a person near Secaucus Junction, but there are 60-minute delays. PATH is accepting NJ Transit tickets...
March 9, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 8, 2018) Senate Democrats yesterday unveiled a $1 trillion national infrastructure plan to cover a wide range of needs, including $180 billion to replace and expand rail and bus systems. Full story: Progressive...
March 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 7, 2018) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Plans advanced for a proposed passenger rail line between Minneapolis and Duluth this week after federal regulators determined it will not significantly affect the environment along its 152-mile...
March 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: CBS Boston, March 8, 2018) WILMINGTON, Del. — The heavy, wet snow didn’t just knock out power Thursday morning, it caused a train to derail. MBTA commuter rail train 300 on the Lowell line went off the tracks around 6:30 a.m. at Routes 129 and 38, right near...
March 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.northjersey.com, March 8, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Nearly half of NJ Transit’s train lines have suspended service because of problems caused by the nor’easter that blasted the area all day Wednesday. However, there is minor traffic at the...
March 8, 2018 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: CBS New York, March 8, 2018) NEW YORK — Storm damage from the second nor’easter in less than a week has disrupted service for Metro-North, NJ Transit and Amtrak. Full story: CBS New York
March 7, 2018 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, March 6, 2018) NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is trying to kill federal funding for a new commuter railroad tunnel under the Hudson River, saying New York and New Jersey must pay more, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said....
March 6, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Connecticut Post, March 2, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — MTA’s chief safety officer told a Senate panel this week that the commuter line is on track to meet the federally imposed year-end deadline for installing Positive Train Control, the GPS-like system designed...
March 6, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Editorial in the New York Post, March 5, 2018) NEW YORK — President Trump’s transition team wisely put the Gateway tunnel at the top of its list of “Emergency & National Security Projects,” and the need for it has only grown. So why would Trump oppose it...
March 6, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 2018) PHILADELPHIA — A NJ Transit crewman was suspended without pay Monday after announcing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security agents were on his morning rush-hour train to New York, the transit...
