The board of South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) has awarded Transdev’s U.S. rail infrastructure maintenance subsidiary, VTMI a $161 million contract to maintain track, signaling, and structures on the 71-mile Tri-Rail regional rail line from West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale and Miami, on Florida’s east coast.
A mock-up of the forthcoming Alstom Citadis Spirit low-floor LRV for Ottawa’s Confederation Line was unveiled Thursday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2015, by Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Orléans Royal Galipeau, and Ontario’s provincial transport minister, Steven Del Duca.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is exercising an option with Siemens for 40 additional SF200 low-floor light rail vehicles (LRVs), boosting the number of LRVs on order to 215. The option is worth $210 million.
Balfour Beatty has announced it has sold its engineering and design consultancy subsidiary Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) to WSP Global, Canada, for £820 million, or roughly US$1.35 billion (roughly C$1.5 billion).
Two huge Chinese rolling stock manufacturers, China CNR Corp. and CSR Corp., have suspended trading of their shares following reports in the Chinese media that the Chinese government is looking to merge the two companies.
Metrolinx, the agency overseeing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, said it has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to supply an additional 65 double-deck coaches for GO Transit rail services, with options for a further 75 vehicles.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 exercised an option worth $638.9 million for an additional 365 cars from Bombardier Transportation, as part of BART’s “fleet of the future” program, which now ratchet the total number of vehicles on order to 775.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, that the Old Line State will allocate $689 million to Baltimore’s planned light rail Red Line, as part of a $1.5 billion investment in transport projects in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has signed a $985.1 million design-build contract with a California-based joint venture of Tutor Perini, Zachry Construction, and Parsons for civil works on the first section of the state’s high speed rail network.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has placed a $184 million order with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for 100 additional series 7000 metro cars, meant to augment and eventually replace Breda series 4000 vehicles supplied in the 1990s.
