November 6, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 5, 2015) NEWARK — Transit advocates are praising NJ Transit’s decision to restore late night train service on two lines, which had been cut back in September, sparking an outcry and a bill to require public hearings for future...
November 5, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Boston.com, November 5, 2015) BOSTON — The MBTA is bringing on nearly 50 pieces of new snow removal equipment to help keep the commuter rail running during the winter, according to officials who unveiled some of the equipment Wednesday. Full story:...
November 5, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 4, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — Repairs on the storm-damaged tunnels under the East and Hudson rivers won’t start until around the end of the decade, Amtrak officials said. Full story: www.nj.com
November 5, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: New York Post, November 5, 2015) NEW YORK — These massive new train tunnels deep beneath Manhattan will one day make the lives of more than 150,000 Long Island commuters a whole lot easier. The MTA gave reporters a peek at the progress in the long-delayed,...
November 4, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: High Country News opinion column by Forrest Whitman, November 4, 2015) PAONIA, Colo. — People in the Western United States like their trains, or so E.M. Frimbo, The New Yorker magazine’s great rail writer with the unusual name, liked to say. But Frimbo...
November 4, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, November 1, 2015) NEW YORK — The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board has approved its 2015-19 Capital Program, the MTA reported on Oct. 30, 2015. Full story: Railway Age
November 3, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: The Record, October 30, 2015) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Two dozen elected Democrats from across New Jersey gathered Friday morning in Paterson to announce a new coalition that will push to bring NJ Transit trains to a rail line through Bergen and Passaic counties...
November 3, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Boston Globe, November 3, 2015) BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to spend an estimated $451.3 million to install technology meant to prevent accidents such as the Amtrak derailment that killed eight people in Philadelphia in May....
November 3, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 2, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — The campaign to boost support for the proposed Gateway trans-Hudson commuter rail tunnel has been animated — literally — by a short video produced by the Regional Plan Association, a Manhattan-based non-profit...
November 3, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 2, 2015) NEW YORK — A Hudson River rail tunnel project that cost New Jersey millions of dollars and ignited a political firestorm when it was canceled five years ago could wind up benefiting a similar effort that is in its early...
