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NewsNorfolk Southern opens replacement Portageville Bridge
USA: Norfolk Southern has opened the new Portageville Bridge, a 294 m long steel arch span across the 72 m deep Genesee River gorge in Letchworth State Park on its Southern Tier Line in New York state. The structure replaces an iron truss bridge built by the Erie Railroad in ...
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Metro Report InternationalSound Transit orders Tacoma Link extension LRVs
USA: Terms have been agreed for Brookville Equipment Corp to supply Seattle’s Sound Transit with five Liberty light rail vehicles for $26·5m plus tax, the manufacturer announced on December 4. The LRVs are required as part of the project to build a 3·9 km extension of the 2·6 km Tacoma ...
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Metro Report InternationalLos Angeles light rail extension groundbreaking
USA: The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 2 for the next phase of the light rail route. The 19·8 km eastern extension from APU/Citrus College in Glendora to Montclair will add six stops. Main construction work is due to begin in 2020, with ...
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NewsCN implements visual identification system at headquarters
CANADA: Infynia Security has deployed FST Biometrics' In Motion Identification facial recognition technology and Automatic Systems’ SmartLane turnstiles at CN’s Montréal headquarters, including all perimeter access points and the entrance to the corporate child daycare centre. The system covers 3 000 employees, contractors and visitors to the headquarters, identifying registered ...
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Metro Report InternationalHitachi Rail Italy metro train enters service in Miami
USA: The first trainset supplied by Hitachi Rail Italy entered service with Miami Metrorail on November 30, marking the first new rolling stock on the network since it opened to passengers in 1984. Miami-Dade Transit placed a $300m order with AnsaldoBreda in November 2012, before the Italian manufacturer was ...
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Metro Report InternationalNext-generation New York Subway car mock-up on display
USA: New York MTA has put a mock-up of a future R211 metro car on public display at 34 St-Hudson Yards station. To be displayed until December 6, the mock-up is being used to gather customer feedback on the proposed design. In July 2016 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Siemens LRV in service in San Francisco
USA: The first of 219 Siemens S200 light rail vehicles for San Francisco’s Muni network has entered revenue service, the manufacturer announced on November 20. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency signed a $648m contract in September 2014 covering a firm order for 175 LRVs with options for up to ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
On November 23 DB Cargo UK marked the start of work to construct a Logistics Centre in Wolverhampton for the steel market. Once completed in mid-2018, the centre will be able to handle and store up to 40 000 tonnes of steel coil which would arrive by rail for onward ...
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Metro Report InternationalBoston Green Line light rail extension contract awarded
USA: The award of a design and build contract for Boston’s Green Line light rail extension was approved by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on November 20. The winning bidder was the GLX Constructors joint venture led by Flour and including Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Herzog Contracting Group and The Middlesex Corp. ...
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Metro Report InternationalMBTA’s CharlieCard to be replaced under PPP contract
USA: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has selected Cubic Transportation Systems and John Laing as preferred bidder for a PPP contract to design, supply and operate a multimodal fare payment system. This will include account-based ticketing with mobile and contactless bank card options, as well as dedicated fare media for those ...
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NewsWay forward seen as Hudson Bay Railway dispute escalates
CANADA: Investment group Fairfax Financial Holdings has expressed interest in partnering with the Missinippi Rail and One North first nations consortia to acquire the flood-damaged Hudson Bay Railway, the Port of Churchill and associated assets from short line group OmniTRAX, the federal government announced on November 16. Minister of Natural ...
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Metro Report InternationalCRRC metro cars on their way to Boston
USA: The first four CRRC metro cars for Boston’s Orange Line are on their way to the USA from the company’s factory in Changchun, having arrived at the port of Shanghai on November 14. In 2014 CRRC MA won a $430·2m contract to supply 152 cars for the Orange ...
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NewsGE looks to sell rail business
USA: General Electric expects to dispose of its Transportation business unit over the next two years, along with its Industrial Solutions and Lighting activities, new CEO John Flannery confirmed on November 13. Presenting his reshaping programme to investors, Flannery indicated that he was looking to ‘focus the portfolio’ around the ...
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NewsSiemens replaces Nippon Sharyo in multi-state coach order
USA: A multi-state contract for Sumitomo Corp of Americas to supply locomotive–hauled coaches for use in California, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri has been amended, with the order now to be fulfilled with Siemens as Sumitomo’s subcontractor rather than Nippon Sharyo. In September 2012 the four states co-operating in the California-led ...
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Metro Report InternationalLas Vegas mixed-traffic driverless shuttle pilot launched
USA: The American Automobile Association has launched a one-year pilot of a driverless shuttle running in mixed traffic in central Las Vegas. Free rides will be offered on the 970 m circular route in the Innovation District, with three stops on Fremont Street and Carson Street. The AAA’s Northern ...
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Metro Report InternationalTalgo to refurbish more Los Angeles metro cars
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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Metro Report InternationalBreeze moves to the cloud in Atlanta
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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NewsSurferlab to develop augmented vehicle technology
FRANCE: On October 25 Bombardier Transportation, Prosyst and the University of Valenciennes & Hainaut-Cambrésis inaugurated Surferlab, a joint facility which will develop embedded digital technology for safer and more intelligent rail, road, air and maritime transport. The three priority areas for Surferlab are connected and predictive maintenance, artificial intelligence, and ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew York to get London-style fare collection system
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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NewsOntario to establish High Speed Rail Planning Advisory Board
CANADA: Plans to establish a High Speed Rail Planning Advisory Board to support the development of proposals for a 250 km/h electrified passenger service on the Windsor – Toronto corridor were announced by the Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne on October 23. The High Speed Rail Planning Advisory Board would ...