THE International Association of Public Transport (UITP) today unveiled two initiatives on November 9 which aim to boost public transport ridership and funding for transit projects.
BEIJING MTR Corporation, a joint venture company comprising MTR Corporation, Beijing Infrastructure Investment Corporation and Beijing Capital Group commenced a concession agreement with the Beijing municipal government on November 6 for a public-private partnership for part B of the Beijing Metro Line 14 project.
AS Americans head to the polls to vote for either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mr Mitt Romney in today's presidential election, voters will also be asked in 12 states whether they approve resolutions and tax increases that could provide up to $US 100bn in direct funding for 19 transit projects.
SOME New York City-area residents resumed their everyday commute on Monday with varying degrees of success. But New Jersey residents may be deprived of adequate rail transit alternatives for far longer than their counterparts in New York State and Connecticut, in large part due to damaged rolling stock and locomotives.
MORE trains are now running on the New York rail network following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy earlier this week. But it will be several weeks before all the repairs will be completed.
MALAYSIA's Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) has awarded two contracts worth a total of Ringgits 1.18bn ($US 387m) for the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Sungai Buloh – Kajang Line in Kuala Lumpur.
HURRICANE Sandy, the worst storm of its type to hit the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area in generations, has had a devastating impact on the rail network.
THE mayor of Mexico City, Mr Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, accompanied by Mexico's president, Mr Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, officially opened Line 12 yesterday.
FREIGHT and passenger operators across the northeast of the United States are endeavouring to assess damage left by Hurricane Sandy and restore train services where possible.
IN preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City this evening, rail services have been suspended along the eastern seaboard of the United States from Washington DC through Philadelphia and New York to the south of Boston.