USA railroad industry news – Page 41

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    Talgo to refurbish more Los Angeles metro cars

    2017-11-06T15:33:59Z

    USA: The board of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to exercise a $18·3m option for Talgo to refurbish 36 Red Line metro cars. Last year LACMTA awarded the Spanish rolling stock manufacturer a $55m contract to refurbish 38 metro cars, with an option for a further ...

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    Breeze moves to the cloud in Atlanta

    2017-11-01T14:49:00Z

    USA: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a $6·5m contract to migrate back office system for the Breeze Card to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. As part of the upgrade, Cubic will update the back-office software to the latest version of its NextFare package. Cubic ...

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    New York to get London-style fare collection system

    2017-10-26T14:47:05Z

    USA: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has selected Cubic Transportation Systems to supply an account-based fare collection system to replace the current MetroCard. The $539·5m contract, which is subject to finalisation, includes the supply of fare validators and ticket vending machines for 472 Subway stations and 6 000 buses ...

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    Cities pledge to buy zero-emission buses

    2017-10-24T11:15:36Z

    INTERNATIONAL: The mayors of 12 cities pledged to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 when they signed the C40 Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets Declaration on October 23. The leaders of London, Paris, København, Barcelona, Milano, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Mexico City, Quito, Auckland and Cape Town ‘envision a future where walking, ...

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    San Diego MTS keeps playing the naming rights game

    2017-10-20T11:12:50Z

    USA: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System announced a naming rights deal for the Green Line on October 19. The 38 km route with 27 stops will be known as the Sycuan Green Line as part of the deal with Sycuan Casino. MTS says that the agreement would generate up ...

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    Nashville transport plan unveiled

    2017-10-18T13:36:14Z

    USA: Nashville Mayor Megan Barry announced a transport plan on October 17 that would include construction of a light rail network in the city. Let’s Move Nashville: Metro’s Transportation Solution will be put to a ballot in May 2018. If approved, the $5·2bn scheme would be funded from sources ...

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    CRRC’s Springfield factory opens as Boston Orange Line cars on test

    2017-10-13T09:22:12Z

    USA: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker officially opened the CRRC MA rolling stock assembly plant in Springfield on October 12. The $95m plant and test track has been built to fulfil a contractual requirement for 60% domestic content in the metro cars that the Chinese manufacturer is supplying to Massachusetts ...

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    Navya plans US production of autonomous shuttles

    2017-10-09T14:44:09Z

    USA: Keolis Transit America used the APTA Expo in Atlanta on October 8-11 to demonstrate the potential for autonomous bus shuttles to be used for ‘last mile’ public transport in urban and suburban applications. The vehicle carried passengers within a demonstration zone in the main exhibition hall of the ...

  • The refurbished R160 cars have fewer seats to improve borading and alighting. They are initially being introduced on the E Subway route between Jamaica Center in Queens and World Trade Center in Manhattan.
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    Refurbished Subway cars enter service in New York

    2017-10-04T10:03:01Z

    USA: The first refurbished R160 cars have entered service on New York City Transit’s E Subway line, New York MTA announced on October 3.Work to refresh an initial 100 R160 cars is being undertaken to assess the capacity and reliability benefits before other fleets are modernised. This forms part of ...

  • CAF has already supplied similar Urbos streetcars for Cincinnati and Kansas City from its Elmira plant in New York state.
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    CAF wins Seattle streetcar contract

    2017-10-02T15:25:42Z

    USA: Seattle Department of Transport has awarded CAF a contract to supply 10 three-section 100% low-floor Urbos trams. Announced on October 2, the contract is worth in excess of $50m including spare parts, tools and testing equipment. SDOT has an option for up to 10 more vehicles. The bi-directional cars ...

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    TriMet orders electric buses for Portland

    2017-09-29T13:52:30Z

    USA: Portland transport agency TriMet has awarded New Flyer of America a contract to supply five battery buses, the manufacturer announced on September 28. The order is being partly financed through a Federal Transit Administration grant. New Flyer will supply its 12 m Xcelsior model, under a contract that ...

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    Electric buses ordered for Minneapolis

    2017-09-28T14:38:27Z

    USA: New Flyer of America is to supply 18 m long articulated electric buses to Twin Cities operator Metro Transit for use on the C Line rapid bus route, which is due to open in 2019. To be assembled at New Flyer’s factory in St Cloud, Minnesota, the Xcelsior ...

  • Siemens said MTS was its largest US light rail vehicle customer, having ordered a total of 244 LRVs as well as power and automation equipment.
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    Siemens awarded San Diego light rail contract

    2017-09-25T15:28:11Z

    USA: The Mid-Coast Transit Constructors joint venture of Stacy & Witbeck, Herzog and Skanska has awarded Siemens a contract to supply power and automation systems for San Diego Metropolitan Transportation System’s 17 km Mid-Coast Corridor light rail extension. The contract announced on September 25 includes the provision of overhead electrification ...

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    FTA launches clearing house to support joint vehicle procurement

    2017-09-13T13:00:47Z

    USA: The Federal Transit Administration has launched a Joint Procurement Clearinghouse where transport agencies can share information about their rail vehicle, bus and ferry requirements. A requirement of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, the clearing house is intended to help agencies find partners who are interested in pooling resources ...

  • A groundbreaking ceremony for the Purple Line in Maryland took place on August 28.
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    Maryland Purple Line breaks ground

    2017-08-29T10:35:41Z

    USA: A groundbreaking ceremony for the Purple Line in Maryland took place on August 28. The 25·7 km light rail line with 21 stops is being built between Bethesda and New Carrollton in the northern suburbs of Washington DC. The ceremony also included the signing of a $900m Full ...

  • Celebrations marked the opening of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District commuter line in the North Bay area of California (Photo: SMART).
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    Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit commuter line opens

    2017-08-29T10:15:00Z

    USA: Celebrations on August 25 marked the opening of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit commuter line in the North Bay area of California. T-shirts and free travel were offered on the first day, followed by half-price travel until the introduction of normal fares on September 5. SMART runs for 69 ...

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    New York’s summer of hell

    2017-08-28T11:00:00Z

    Welcome to ‘the summer of hell’. As if the well-documented problems at New York’s Penn Station were not enough for the city’s commuters to contend with, Subway passengers are approaching the end of their collective tether as delays and disruption continue to mount on North America’s largest metro network.

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    Stadler completes first TEX Rail DMU

    2017-08-03T09:02:07Z

    USA: Stadler has completed the first Flirt multiple-unit to be assembled in the USA at its plant at North Salt Lake in Utah. The DMU for the TEX Rail project will be officially unveiled at the ATPA Expo in Atlanta in October. In 2015 the Fort Worth Transportation Authority ...

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    San Francisco trolleybus order placed

    2017-08-02T14:40:09Z

    USA: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has ordered 185 trolleybuses, New Flyer of America announced on July 26. The manufacturer will supply its 12 m long Xcelsior model. The order is an option on a contract placed by King County Metro Transit in 2013. The agency serving Seattle placed ...

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    Los Angeles electric bus orders approved

    2017-08-01T15:31:51Z

    USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved contracts for the supply of 95 electric buses for use on its two bus rapid transit routes. BYD is to supply 12 m buses to be used on the Silver Line. The $45m contract covers 60 buses, spare parts and ...