TRANSPORT funding totalling $65·6bn is included in the Bush administration’s budget proposals for the 2007 fiscal year, which were announced on February 6.
The budget allocates $8·9bn for the Federal Transit Administration, including $1·5bn for work on 23 existing projects and five more approved for federal funding in the annual New Starts report. The five projects, which would share $303m, are:
EUROPE: The EU Agency for Railways has launched ERA Railway Factsheets, giving what it calls ‘a comprehensive overview of the rail sector across European countries with one-click access’. Covering aspects such as transport statistics, railway organisations, rolling stock, infrastructure, safety, market structure, and the legal framework, ...
UK: ‘We in the rail sector must be objective and honest about what we are good at’, Network Rail Chief Executive Andrew Haines told a conference in Birmingham on October 3, as he reflected on how the industry can plot its way through the uncertainty of the post-Covid period.
EUROPE: Senior figures from across the UK rail sector came together at the Rail Partners with Ukraine event to hear how national railway Ukrzaliznytsia is keeping trains running under wartime conditions, and to raise money to fund food parcels for Ukrainian railway workers and their families. ...
