Sentences with phrase «passenger rail routes»

Construction of 8 infrastructure projects along Norfolk Southern and Amtrak - owned rail lines in northwestern Indiana, reducing congestion on tracks shared by multiple intercity passenger rail routes.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has received $ 55 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration for safety and capacity improvements to intercity passenger rail routes.

Not exact matches

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: «The full HS2 route will be a game changer for the country that will slash journey times and give rail passengers on the existing network thousands of extra seats every day.

«Last week the Transport Secretary confirmed a number of commitments around rail in the South West, most notably around improvements to the line at Dawlish, while passengers on the Great Western route can look forward to the introduction of new high - speed trains from this summer, with extra capacity at peak times.

«This is a major step forward towards fulfilling our commitment to tackle overcrowding on the busiest routes and, deliver real improvements for rail passengers.»

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have released 10 service and route options for new and improved conventional and high - speed passenger rail service connecting Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and South Texas.

The $ 551 million Request for Proposals (RFP) to manufacture approximately 130 new bi-level passenger rail cars in America comes from a groundbreaking multi-state effort to jointly purchase standardized rail equipment to be used on Amtrak's intercity routes in California, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, and potentially Iowa.

Feasibility study for the development of a proposed high - speed intercity passenger rail corridor between Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA along a route serving Louisville, KY and Nashville and Chattanooga, TN.

Passengers on Great Rail Journeys tours will experience a small stretch of the route as we travel from LA to San Francisco.

On some rural routes or those less frequented by passengers, services referred to as «taxi trains» or «rail buses» operate on a «stop by request» basis in much the same way that a bus does.

Taking overall track length into consideration, the San Diego Trolley transported 2,239 daily passengers per route mile in Q4 2014, making it the twelfth busiest Light rail system on a per mile basis over this time period.

And with the size of Europe's high - speed rail network due to triple in the 15 years to 2020, passengers will be able to travel faster point - to - point by high - speed rail than by plane on nearly half of Europe's busiest air routes, according to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group *.

With faster rail access to London, MAG believes that London Stansted would attract more long haul routes, giving passengers more choice and providing high - tech and life sciences businesses in the corridor around Stansted with better access to global markets.

The Ghan takes passengers on what is undoubtedly one of the world's greatest rail journeys; the route between Darwin, Alice Springs and Adelaide includes the spectacular landscape of the Outback, rugged mountains and tropical splendour.

BNSF is a freight company, but many Amtrak routes use BNSF rails, and maybe one of Buffet's plans is to expand into passenger rail?

With Eurostar, the UK to mainland Europe train operator, claiming carbon emissions 10 - times lower than equivalent airline routes (and that was before they went carbon neutral), it's no wonder that airlines are losing passengers to rail where real competition exists.

The team also advised Network Rail Infrastructure on the upgrade of the route from Manchester Victoria to Leeds and York, and is acting for the same client on the construction agreements for the delivery of a new retail development at London Waterloo station, as well as a wider programme to increase train and passenger capacity at the station.

[2] In the case at bar, which is a proposed class action, without obtaining court permission, Via Rail Canada Inc. («Via Rail») and Canadian National Railway Company («CNR»), the defendants in the proposed class action, communicated with several putative class members, who had been passengers on a train that derailed on route to Toronto.

In response to the high volume of passengers traveling along this route, Amtrak introduced a high speed rail known as the Acela.