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WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao came under fire Wednesday at an appropriations hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, with transportation subcommittee chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., charging the Trump administration with “neglecting to include even one cent for the Gateway project” in its fiscal year 2020 budget request. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed […]
BOSTON — “Human error” is being blamed for Tuesday’s collision of two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trains near Boston’s South Station, which resulted in the derailment of one train and cancellation of commuter trains on the MBTA’s Fairmount Line for part of Wednesday. The accident occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday, when a Fairmount Line train […]
NEW YORK — Statistic show continued improvement for New York City’s beleaguered subway system, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said at a Wednesday press conference. MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, Managing Director Veronique Hakim, and NYC Transit President Andy Byford highlighted statistics showing better on-time performance and increased customer satisfaction. These latest performance results are […]
BOSTON — Service on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Fairmount line for the morning commute today (Wednesday, April 10) has been cancelled as the result of a Tuesday night collision and derailment of two MBTA trains near Boston’s South Station. No injuries were reported when a Fairmount Line train collided with an out-of-service train at […]
An Arcade & Attica Railroad rare-mileage special paused at North Jana, N.Y., on March 30. Pat Connors Jr. ARCADE, N.Y. — New York’s Arcade & Attica ran its final excursion of two for the New York Maple festival to North Java on March 30. The special trips marked the return of passenger trains to this […]
BALTIMORE — Amtrak will spend $90 million to upgrade Baltimore’s Penn Station, a move expected to ignite $400 to $600 million in development around the station area, the Baltimore Sun reports. Amtrak will make station and track improvements and lease an adjacent lot to a group, Penn Station Partners, to build a mixed-use project. “Amtrak […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for major changes to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York’s subways — as typified by these No. 7 trains at Corona Yard in Queens — in a Thursday speech. Ralph Spielman NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a civic group Thursday that the Metropolitan Transportation […]
NEW YORK — Some New York City residents will receive discounts on Long Island Rail Road tickets as part of the deal to bring congestion pricing tolls to New York. The New York Post reports that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will offer 20% discounts on monthly passes to residents of northeast Queens. The discounts, which […]
An MBTA commuter train crosses one of two drawbridges over the Charles River as it leaves North Station. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is developing plans for expansion of Boston-area commuter service as it might look by the year 2040. Scott A. Hartley BOSTON — To see what commuter rail in Boston might look like […]
NJ Transit train No. 5441 loads passengers at Newark Penn Station on March 13, 2019. NJ Transit’s first class to address its shortage of locomotive engineers has completed classroom training and could be operating trains by this fall. Ralph Spielman NEWARK. N.J. — In the midst of its 2018 issues with cancelled trains because of […]
The MTA EzPass, to be used for New York’s congestion pricing, is already in use by 95 percent of those using toll bridges and tunnels to reach New York City. Ralph Spielman NEW YORK — Patrick Foye’s first public event as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a Monday news conference, provided the first insight […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Buffalo’s light rail system will receive $100 million over the next five years for infrastructure improvements, the Buffalo News reports. The money — plus another $6 million for engineering studies on a possible addition to the 35-year-old, 6.4-mile Metro Rail line — was part of a deal reached Saturday night between Gov. […]
