New Jersey Transit Is Missing $2.4 Million in Fares From Worker Shortage

By Elise Young, Bloomberg; November 2, 2017 New Jersey Transit failed to collect $2.4 million in commuter-rail revenue over nine…

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Rhode Island Asks for Express Commuter Trains to Boston

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report; November 5, 2017 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov.…

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Michigan: Community leaders envision revival of old ‘interurban’ railway

By Sherry Kuyt, mlive.com; November 6, 2017 Area transportation officials and city planners are discussing a new version of an…

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Boston: Boy’s Quick Thinking Saves Commuter Rail Train From Potential Disaster

By Bill Shields, CBS Boston 4 WBZ; November 3, 2017 HAVERHILL (CBS) – An 11-year old boy saw a tree…

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Boston: MBTA highlights $101M invested in winter resiliency efforts

Written by Mischa Wanek-Libman, Editor, RT&S Magazine; November 3, 2017 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is highlighting the $101…

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Boston: A commuter rail rider was arrested after a ticket check — but he had a valid pass

By Adam Vaccaro, Boston Globe; November 1, 2017 The MBTA’s new push to check tickets on commuter rail platforms has…

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Norway plans first order for double-deck trains

Written by Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal; October 30, 2017 THE Norwegian Railway Directorate announced on October 24 that it…

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Connecticut: Wallingford train station to open Monday; first to open as part of CTrail Hartford Line

From myrecordjournal.com; October 31, 2017 WALLINGFORD — The town’s new train station on North Cherry Street is scheduled to open…

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Philadelphia: These are SEPTA’s worst rail lines. Here’s why.

By Justine McDaniel, Jason Laughlin & Dylan Purcell, Staff Writers, Philly.com; October 31, 2017 For commuters heading home to Bucks…

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South Africa: Council approves plan to take over Cape Town’s trains

From GroundUp, Daily Maverick: October 27, 2017 Brett Herron, Mayco Member for Transportation and Urban Development, presented a business plan…

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New Jersey Transit posts lowest annual ridership since Superstorm Sandy

By Curtis Tate, NorthJersey.com; October 27, 2017 NJ Transit’s ridership declined 3 percent last year, reflecting the impact of a major crash,…

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New Jersey Transit, facing shortage, is slow to train locomotive engineers

By Curtis Tate, Staff Writer, NorthJersey.com; October 27, 2017 NJ Transit takes longer to train locomotive engineers than any of…

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California: 25 years ago, Metrolink let SoCal do the locomotion again

By David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: October 26, 2017 The Red Cars had ended service here a month before…

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UK: Great Western Railway takes intercity express trains out of service after PR fiasco

By Steven Morris, The Guardian, October 19, 2017 The much-heralded intercity express train has been temporarily taken out of passenger…

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Ontario: $850M Whitby rail yard nears completion

By News Services, Daily Commercial News; October 23, 2017 WHITBY, ONT. — The new 500,000-square-foot GO Transit Whitby Rail Maintenance…

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UK: Parents’ anger as children pictured ‘crammed’ onto trains on their way home from school

By Tom Houghton, Wales Online; October 20, 2017 Parents have voiced their anger after a photo emerged showing Valleys schoolchildren…

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UK: Swanage-Wareham rail line reconnection ‘a success’

From BBC News; October 18, 2017 The first regular passenger train services to run between the mainline and a Dorset…

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Commuters are fuming as New Jersey Transit keeps cancelling the same rush hour train

By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; October 18, 2017 Angry commuters who say that their rush hour train has been canceled over…

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Public input sought on new plan for commuter train between Mooresville and Charlotte, North Carolina

BY MEGAN SPRAGUE, Mooresville Tribune; October 18, 2017 Is a commuter train between Mooresville and Charlotte still a possibility? That…

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Massachusetts: Second commuter train platform planned for Worcester Union Station

By Cyrus Moulton, Telegram & Gazette Staff, Worcester Telegram; October 17, 2017 WORCESTER – It’s been talked about for years,…

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New Jersey Transit’s entire system is breaking down at an alarming rate

By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; October 17, 2017 NJ Transit trains broke down more in 2017 than they did in 2016,…

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Have train riders found a sneaky new way to cheat on New Jersey Transit fares?

By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; October 15, 2016 A new type of fare-beater is becoming a money-sapping problem for NJ Transit,…

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New Jersey Transit Delays Got Worse in September After New York Penn Repairs Completed: Report

From NBC 4 New York; October 13, 2017 If you thought your NJ Transit commute was worse in September than…

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California Bay Area: SMART makes it through fire devastation, ties communities together

By Mark Prado, Marin Independent Journal; October 12, 2017 As they leave an operations center in Santa Rosa on their…

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