December 20, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Editorial in the Boston Herald, December 20, 2019) BOSTON — Our tax dollars would never be used to support human rights abuses, child labor or market manipulation by a foreign government, right? Wrong! In November, NBC News released findings from its yearlong...
December 19, 2019 | Canada, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, December 17, 2019) NEW YORK — Doug Ford, the Province of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Premier, has axed Hamilton’s DBFOM (design, build, finance, operate, maintain) B-Line light rail project, only months after he said publicly that the...
December 19, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Washington Post, December 17, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The images on the screen looked like the infrared bodies you see on ghost hunting shows, but the green figures that flashed on the screen at the Pentagon City Metro station Tuesday in Arlington, Virginia,...
December 19, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2019) CHICAGO — Your Metra train was more likely to be late this year, primarily due to signaling and switching problems, along with weather delays, according to the commuter railroad. Full story: Chicago...
December 18, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Orlando Sentinel, December 17, 2019) ORLANDO, Fla. — Brightline and Walt Disney Co. officials have confirmed advanced talks about a station on or near theme-park property as part of a route to Tampa proposed by the passenger-rail system being renamed as...
December 18, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 17, 2019) MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) have improved the safety of their commuter-rail systems by implementing safety recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board’s...
December 17, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Construction Dive, December 16, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Virgin Trains USA updated its timeline for construction of the 170-mile, $4.8 billion high-speed train from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, and said it...
December 17, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, December 16, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit trains are the worst in the nation, racking up the most breakdowns of any transit system during 2018. NJ Transit retook the terrible train “crown” from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority,...
December 17, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Mass Transit Magazine, December 17, 2019) NEW YORK — American railroads currently face the greatest threat to their critical safety systems in history: cyberattacks. Rail critical infrastructure in America has been subject to a spate of cyberattacks, with...
December 16, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: News 12 Long Island, December 15, 2019) LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — A group of men dressed up as Santa Claus say they had to subdue a knife-wielding man on the Long Island Rail Road. An LIRR rider posted video on Twitter Saturday night of a fight between people...
