November 25, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Boston Herald, November 23, 2019) BOSTON — China’s government-owned CRRC is fighting for more lucrative MBTA contracts to keep its Springfield plant humming as the Trump administration looks to ban federal dollars going to the mass transit company and state...
November 20, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 19, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit won a major victory when an appellate court ruled that seven insurance companies have to pay to repair to trains that were damaged by flooding from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Full story:...
November 18, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Fresno Bee, November 16, 2019) FRESNO, Calif. — Amtrak trains running through central California between Bakersfield, Oakland and Sacramento carried nearly 1.1 million passengers in 2018-19, maintaining the Amtrak San Joaquin line’s status as the nation’s...
November 18, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Opinion column at www.nj.com by Assembylman John F. McKeon, November 17, 2019. Assembylman McKeon represents New Jersey’s 27th Legislative District.) NEWARK, N.J. — My eldest daughter is one of the nearly 800,000 daily commuters that rely on NJ Transit. As...
November 15, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NJ Spotlight, November 15, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — The scene at the legislative hearing at the Hoboken train station Wednesday evening was all too familiar for NJ Transit riders: Once again they had a chance to bemoan the service they get from the state’s mass...
November 14, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 13, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — Commuters got a rare chance to tell lawmakers in person Wednesday evening about their issues with NJ Transit on their home turf – steps away from the buses and trains that would take them home from Hoboken...
November 14, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NBC New York, November 13, 2019) NEW YORK — A woman injured in the fatal crash of a New Jersey Transit train in 2016 has settled a lawsuit for $1.5 million. LaTonya Story was aboard the train that crashed at Hoboken Terminal, killing one and injuring more...
November 14, 2019 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Tribune, November 13, 2019) CHICAGO — After a “disastrous” service outage that delayed tens of thousands of passengers earlier this year and problems with falling concrete, Rep. Dan Lipinski wants Metra to take over control of train operations at...
November 13, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Opinion column by Jim Wisniewski at www.nj.com, November 12, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — The nation’s largest statewide transit system, the third largest by ridership, is in trouble. It wasn’t always this way and it doesn’t have to be. Full story:...
November 13, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Northwest News Network, November 8, 2019) SPOKANE, Wash. — Tuesday’s vote in Washington state to roll back car registration fees has scrambled transportation budgets. But Pacific Northwest rail advocates are undeterred in pursuing their vision of a...
