The City of Cincinnati Streetcar Project seeks businesses interested in working on the construction of the city’s streetcar project to attend a meeting in which they will learn how to become registered as a “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise” (DBE).
The board of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) voted Monday to support a $126 million plan to reintroduce streetcars to the state capital. The vote, however, involved no financing for the proposal, and observers note a definitive route has yet to be selected.
General Motors has named Union Pacific its 2011 Supplier of the Year for Rail Services.
A final route choice, initially reduced from a smorgasbord of 65 route options to just seven until now, is expected to be selected March 22 for the Los Angeles Streetcar project, after review by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA).
Amtrak and the Michigan Department of Transportation late Thursday publicly protested a decision by Norfolk Southern enacting speed restrictions of 25 to 30 mph on NS track between Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor. The decisions slow Amtrak Wolverine Service trains linking Chicago and Detroit from previous speeds of 79 mph; Amtrak advised passengers to expect delays of 45 to 90 minutes more than scheduled running times.
Washington, D.C.-area municipality Alexandria and nearby Arlington County, both in Virginia, are jointly planning a five-mile streetcar line that local media suggest may come to fruition more quickly than the higher-profile Columbia Pike streetcar project.
Applications for the Railway Supply Institute’s 2012/2013 Academic Year Scholarship are now available online—but the deadline of April 20, 2012, is not all that far away, so apply now.
Fairport, N.Y.-based RailComm on Thursday announced that Michael Dampier has joined the company as vice president of Sales and Marketing. Dampier will be based in Jacksonville, Fla.
Union Pacific directors have named Eric L. Butler executive vice president, Marketing and Sales, succeeding Jack Koraleski, who is serving as acting president and CEO while Chairman Jim Young is on medical leave.
U.S. freight traffic continued its mixed trends in the week ending March 10, 2012, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. U.S. freight carload traffic declined 4.8% for the week measured against the comparable week in 2011. By contrast, U.S. intermodal volume for the week was up 4.2% compared with the same week last year.