November 11, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 10, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — It’s been over a year since the results of an audit of NJ Transit, ordered by Gov. Phil Murphy, were delivered in a train station in Metuchen last October. What’s been checked off since that day, when North...
November 8, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 8, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — Now that the American Dream mall has partially opened, NJ Transit has begun its search for new ways to get people to and from the Meadowlands mega-complex and events at neighboring MetLife Stadium. Full story:...
November 8, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Journal News, November 8, 2019) NEW YORK — Positive Train Control (PTC) now covers nearly 90% of the Hudson Line, from Marble Hill north to Poughkeepsie, a distance of 67 miles that includes track used by Amtrak and CSX, Metro-North President Catherine...
November 7, 2019 | Commuter Rail, DOT, Headlines
(Source: NJ Spotlight, November 7, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey’s two U.S. senators are challenging the head of the federal Department of Transportation to meet the commuters who routinely face delays caused by the Northeast Corridor’s century-old trans-Hudson rail...
November 7, 2019 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, November 6, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the availability of $24 million in grant funding to initiate, restore, or enhance...
November 7, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Construction Dive, November 6, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) has authorized a $3.2 billion tax-exempt, fixed-rate revenue bond issuance to help DesertXpress Enterprises LLC, an affiliate of Virgin...
November 6, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, November 6, 2019) MADISON, Wisc. — In Beech Grove, Indiana, two massive brick warehouses have been a part of the landscape for more than a century. One of the buildings has a concrete sign that reads 1907. The other reads 1910. Both...
November 6, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: www.nj.com, November 5, 2019) NEWARK, N.J. — A man on a rush-hour train headed to New Jersey died after possibly suffering a heart attack, despite a doctor’s best efforts to revive him. NJ Transit train No. 3363, on the North Jersey Coast Line route, was...
November 6, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: State House News Service, November 4, 2019) BOSTON — The MBTA board voted Monday to back substantial investment in the commuter rail, calling for electrification of the system and more frequent service through the most dense corridors in a step that...
November 5, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Railway Age, November 4, 2019) NEW YORK — “CRRC AND BEIJING’S DASH FOR GLOBAL ROLLING STOCK DOMINANCE,” a report prepared by Radarlock, which describes itself as “a research organization that uses data-driven analysis to understand techno-economic dynamics in...
