Mass Transit Rail Update - Tuesday ENL - Feb 27th, 2024
 
 
Mass Transit Rail Update
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February 27, 2024
The funding will help transit agencies in Chicago, Ill., Philadelphia, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., replace older vehicles with 300 new railcars.
The agency has received $59.3 million from the South Coast AQMD Governing Board to purchase the vehicles; the board also approved up to $87.4 million from South Coast AQMD’s contingency grant award list to replace 12 earlier-generation Metrolink locomotives with lower-emission Tier 4 locomotives.
By Eman Abu-Khaled
The BEMU rail vehicles supplied by Stadler will help Metra to improve air quality in Chicago's more densely populated regions.
The funding is through FTA’s Rail Vehicle Replacement program; the state of Maryland is providing $90 million in matching funds and allocating $127.6 million in federal formula funds to the project to complement FTA’s funding.
SEPTA has completely redesigned SEPTA Metro after years of community feedback; the agency has chosen letters as abbreviations for its Metro lines because they are short, easy to remember and universally recognized.
Trillium Guideway Partners has signed onto a Development and Master Construction Agreement with Metrolinx under a progressive design-build contract.
The catchment wall will protect the track from soil and debris from a privately owned slope that slid into the rail right of way in late January.
By Eman Abu-Khaled
The L.A. Metro D Line extension project was used as the setting for the piloting of the Volvo EC230 Electric excavator.
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