The Washington State Legislature has signed off on the 2023-25 Transportation Budget, which allocates $14.5 million to complete upgrades to the nearly 100-year-old Connell Rail Interchange located in the eastern part of the state.
The Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC (NTEC) has filed a complaint and petition for declaratory order with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address what it calls BNSF’s failure to provide adequate
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), in one of its first moves since officially combining Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern on April 14, has announced a new multi-year agreement with Schneider National
The Austin (Tex.) Transit Partnership awards light rail planning and design contracts for Project Connect. Also, Metra’s Chicagoland commuter rail stations will offer train-tracking and schedule updates on new video monitors; Metrolinx provides an official “first look” at GO Trains on the Davenport Diamond Guideway in Toronto; South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) reveals a new Tri-Rail train wrap; Seattle’s Sound Transit receives a loan to finance its South Sounder Access Improvement Project; residents of the agglomeration of Montréal aged 65 and over will soon ride free on Société de transport de Montréal (STM) transit services; and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announces the launch date of its 98th rapid transit station.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has received an award for excellence in advancing diversity and social change from the American Planning Association’s (APA) California–Northern Section.
“We delivered greater network fluidity and resiliency in the first quarter even as we faced a series of significant weather events,” Union Pacific Chairman, President and CEO Lance Fritz said during the Class I’s financial report on April 20. “In addition to the impact of weather on carload volumes and costs, higher inflation also reduced our operating income and more than offset our record first quarter operating revenue.”
A 192-acre site in Mesa, Ariz., will be divided into industrial-use subsites to be served by Union Pacific (UP), according to global real estate developer Trammell Crow Company (TCC), which recently acquired the property with a client of CBRE Investment Management.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Commuter Rail operating partner Keolis launch the “Why Go Green with Purple Sweepstakes?” Also, North Carolina’s intercity passenger rail service breaks 2019 ridership record; and New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) temporarily loses the ability to post real-time subway, commuter rail and bus service alerts via Twitter, and may soon have to pay for that feature.
BNSF on April 17 announced that it will grant individual paid sick days to its railroaders who are Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC) members. The same day, Norfolk Southern (NS) reported reaching a paid sick leave agreement with the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS).
BNSF provides customers an intermodal update, citing “some improved service performance” while its teams address network-wide weather-related challenges. Also, the Port of Los Angeles closes a “soft” first-quarter 2023, down 32% from the prior-year period.