Mass Transit

IL: Gov. Quinn Announces Partnership with University of Illinois to Study 220-mph Rail Service

Governor Pat Quinn today announced a partnership between the University of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Transportation and a special advisory group to study the feasibility of 220-mph passenger rail service between Chicago, Urbana-Champaign...

News • June 6th, 2011

US Politicians Push for Private Finance to Fund High Speed Rail Plans

American politicians last week said private finance must be used to deliver high speed rail lines between Boston, New York and Washington.

News • June 6th, 2011

HI: Concern Grows Over Rail's Cost

Cliff Slater, an opponent of rail and one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit field last week trying to stop the project, said it was hard to make sense of the data, noting that the number who say work should be completed is roughly equivalent to the...

News • June 6th, 2011

IL: Two Trains Collide in Chicago

The incident took place at the Union Station Friday when an inbound metro train struck a parked train, witnesses said.

News • June 6th, 2011

India: Mob Ransacks Station, Railway Police Fire in Air

Railway police fired several rounds in the air as a mob ransacked the Tilbhitha railway station in Pakur district of Jharkhand after a woman was run over and killed by a goods train today, a senior police officer said today.

News • June 6th, 2011

CA: SMART Wants $8 Million More from Marin Taxpayers

Marin County taxpayers appear to be on the hook for another $8 million to get the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit project rolling.

News • June 6th, 2011

PA: Man Struck and Killed by Train in Northeast

In what police believe was a suicide, a pedestrian was killed Saturday afternoon when a northbound Amtrak train struck him at Grant Avenue near the Torresdale train station, police said.

News • June 6th, 2011

TN: Bystanders May Have Faked Trolley Injuries

Memphis transit authorities say witnesses to a trolley crash claim that bystanders attempted to board the trolley and fake injuries after the crash.

News • June 6th, 2011

CA: Man Killed on Mountain View Caltrain Tracks ID'd

Coroner's officials identified the man struck and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View on Wednesday as Cecil Joseph Bloch.

News • June 6th, 2011

UK: Campaigners Get up Steam to Fight £32bn Railway Project

When the Government announced the detailed route of the first stage running from London to Birmingham, a sizable campaign opposing it sprang up.

News • June 6th, 2011

Illinois Eyes Economic Growth with High-Speed Rail Study

In a plan to help boost Illinois' global economy, the state will launch a 1.2-million-U.S.-dollar study to determine the cost of building a 220 mph (354 km per hour) high-speed rail system, hoping to follow in the footsteps of leaders like France and...

News • June 3rd, 2011

China's to Set Floating Prices for High-Speed Train Tickets

The Ministry of Railways will publish a new national train schedule on July 1, which will add 195 routes and implement floating ticket prices for the China Railway High-Speed (CRH), China Daily reported, citing the Beijing Youth Daily on Thursday.

News • June 3rd, 2011

ND: Floods Halt Train Service; St. Paul, Spokane Route Suspended

Flooding in the Devils Lake region of North Dakota has shut down Amtrak between St. Paul and Spokane, Wash.

News • June 3rd, 2011

US: DOT/Federal Transit Administration Issues Grants Notice on "Transit Climate Change Adaptation Assessment Pilots"

DOT/Federal Transit Administration issues grants notice for transit climate change adaptation assessment pilots. Estimated total program funding is $525,000.

News • June 3rd, 2011

TN: Six Hurt When Power Failure Sends Trolleys on Collision Course Downtown

Two MATA trolleys collided Wednesday afternoon in Downtown Memphis, sending six people to the hospital.

News • June 3rd, 2011

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