July 29, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Boston Globe, July 29, 2015) BOSTON — Tuesday was meant to mark a new era for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, as the new board that is charged with bringing financial stability to the agency finally convened. But at that first meeting, T...
July 29, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, July 28, 2015) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Governor Christie said Tuesday that he and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would accept an invitation to talk with the Obama administration’s top transportation official about Amtrak’s failing 105-year-old...
July 28, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Connecticut Post, July 28, 2015) NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday hailed the state’s final purchase of new M8 rail cars for Metro-North, marking an end to the first phase of improving the commuter railroad. Full story:...
July 28, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 27, 2015) During fiscal-year 2015, ridership along the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) Regional Rail system increased 2 percent versus FY2014 to 37.4 million trips, marking a new record for the...
July 28, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Yahoo Finance, July 27, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — And there’s the problem. Infrastructure, not just in the north east, but coast to coast, costs money. Lots of it. The problems in and around the country’s largest city are just a few of the many examples of...
July 28, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, July 27, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit officials filed a formal complaint on Friday with Amtrak’s executive vice president, saying that the railroad is not meeting it’s responsibilities to provide a well maintained facility under its...
July 28, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: New York Times, July 27, 2015) NEW YORK — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, hoping to spur action on long-stalled plans for new Hudson River rail tunnels, sent a letter on Monday to the governors of New York and New Jersey urging them to meet with him in...
July 27, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, July 24, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — Amtrak President Joseph Boardman empathized with NJ Transit riders who’ve endured delays due to four days of problems with aging infrastructure and said while the agency has the solutions, it lacks the funding...
July 27, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: The Record, July 24, 2015) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — For hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents who commute to New York by train, this past week was the week from hell. On four weekdays out of five, capped by problems on Friday morning, electrical failures...
July 27, 2015 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: New York Times, July 26, 2015) NEW YORK — Delays because of aging infrastructure have become all too common on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest rail sector, which stretches from Washington to Boston and carries about 750,000 riders each day on...
