Light Rail
TriMet to close Steel Bridge for MAX light-rail work
(Source: Progressive Railroading 07/09/2020) The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) next month will temporarily close the Steel Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland to perform major repairs to the MAX light-rail system. The upper deck of the 108-year-old bridge will be closed Aug. 2-29 while improved lift joints and locks, new switches and signal…
Read MoreTriMet to begin light-rail track work
(Source: Progressive Railroading 7/9/2019)
Read MoreTriMet awards $80M fleet overhaul contract to Siemens Mobility
(Source: Progressive Railroading 06/04/2019)
Read MoreFTA allows Sound Transit to advance Federal Way light-rail extension
(Source: Progressive Railroading 04/11/2019) Sound Transit yesterday received approval from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to advance its light-rail extension project to the engineering phase — a step toward securing a critically important federal grant. With FTA’s approval of Sound Transit’s Federal Way Link Extension project into the engineering phase, FTA locked in the Capital Investment Grant (CIG)…
Read MoreUTA wraps up double tracking project on Salt Lake City streetcar line
(Source: Progressive Railroading 04/10/2019) Utah Transit Authority (UTA) officials earlier this week marked the completion of construction on a new section of double tracking on the S-Line streetcar route, which connects the Fairmont Station in Salt Lake City to the Central Pointe TRAX light-rail station in South Salt Lake City. Begun in 2018, the project was…
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