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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has selected the Design-Build Team to provide engineering, design and build services for Phase One of the Red and Purple Modernization Program, a project for [...]

Georgia developer, Stanley Thomas is making attempts to redevelop the 240-acre downtown railyard by loading the project with housing, brackets tap into hot demand, satisfying some wishes of city officials and making planners happy. Downtown Sacramento had investigated Thomas' finances, discussed with his bankers and other parties and found that he had sufficient financial clout for the project.

Information regarding Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex plan to improve the rail and truck infrastructure to keep the truck traffic down to reasonable levels is presented. The reasons for increased traffic congestions are mentioned.

The railway viaduct, located close to the Belgian, Dutch and German borders, is part of the economically important railway line connecting Belgian ports with the German industrial Ruhr area. It [...]

Information on New Jersey Transit's heavy rail modernization projects to improve the state's rail services is offered. Additional information on heavy rail rehabilitation projects in various US cities is also included.

To achieve our growth strategy--our horizon for the next few years--we felt that the most logical and pragmatic solution was to prioritise transport corridors, says Moira Moses, chief executive of [...]

The company that makes the winning bid for the tax-free shop at Eurostar's new home will take up residence in one of the slickest travel-retail destinations in Europe. London St [...]

Railroads new policies like closing a number of lanes for trailers and converting them over to container-only lanes in order to increase the trailer capacity are questioned. The consequences of the changes in policies on customers are discussed.

Three decades of close coordination between federal, state and local agencies and Union Pacific and former Southern Pacific brought to fruition a demonstration project that is already paying dividends to [...]

Phoenix unveiled its renovated Central Station Transit Center downtown last month after one year of reconstruction. Improvements at the two-acre site - which hosts local and express buses, light rail [...]

British Rail will hand over responsibility for the railway infrastructure to Railtrack, a government owned company, from April 01 1994. Railtrack will also have responsibility for all operational land and buildings and will be seeking investment in the major projects it inherits. Gil Howarth will be in charge of major projects and plans talks with companies such as Bovis, John Brown and Bechtel. Some believe that Railtrack will not have the money or the inclination to invest in physical development, and some feel that the seven year franchises are not long enough.

Architect: Grimshaw Location: Nunawading, Melbourne, Australia Completed: January 2010 By Amanda Birch Taking only six months from conception to completion, the rebuilding of Nunawading station is Grimshaw's fastest project to [...]

Detailed plans for the #10 million reconstruction of the Euston Arch in London have been unveiled by TV presenter Dan Cruickshank. They include a nightclub in the basement and a [...]

London's Westminster City Council has given the green light to a comprehensive redevelopment of Green Park tube station despite objections from English Heritage about the impact it will have on [...]

Westminster council has unveiled its #18.5 million redesign for central London's Leicester Square. Landscape architect Burns & Nice saw off competition from Beth Gali, Gross Max, LDA Design, Gustafson Porter, [...]

AMANDA BAILLIEU The ODA needs to deliver on its design rhetoric if the Olympics are to match our confident structures of the past When public enthusiasm for a proposed national [...]

Atkins has completed work on its refurb of the Victorian railway arches at Waterloo Station, part of the 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' project. Mosaics, LED lighting and [...]

This New York City cross-roads has seen it all. Glamorous rail travelers, war-supply trains, encampments of the homeless, powerful politicians, and billions of commuters have passed through its tunnels and [...]

Staff Amo, Ind.-- The town of Amo has selected Stocker Construction Co. to begin the first phase of restoration on a century-old interurban station. Brenner Design is the project architect. [...]

The Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad, which operates 187 miles of the former Erie main line from Hornell, N.Y., west to Meadville, Pa., is not your typical short line. […]

This was to be a banner summer for VIA Rail Canada, as it celebrated the 100th anniversary of its signature eastern train, the Ocean, with fare discounts, new equipment, and […]

This dilapidated railway station in Sussex was dramatically transformed when cellular PVC Shiplap cladding from Swish Building Products was used in its refurbishment. Cooden Beach Station on the Coastway East [...]