NEW York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and its Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) subsidiary announced that they have received four design proposals from qualified engineering firms for the modernisation of LIRR’s part of Penn Station as part of plans to transform Penn Station and the historic James A. Farley Post Office into a transport hub.
TORONTO and Hamilton transit authority Metrolinx confirmed on November 3 that it has filed a notice of intent to terminate a contract worth up to $C 770m ($US 574.2m) for up to 182 Flexity Freedom LRVs.
THE governor of the US state of Connecticut Mr Dannel Malloy has confirmed that Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will purchase 60 additional M-8 EMU cars from Kawasaki by 2019 to meet surging ridership demand on Metro North Railroad's New Haven Line.
THE United States Federal Transit Administration has awarded a Letter of No Prejudice (LONP) to Fort Worth Transportation Authority (FWTA) for the $US 996m Tex Rail commuter rail project, clearing the way for groundbreaking next month.