Even beyond the floating bridge, the new seven-mile stretch of light rail—from downtown Seattle to the southern end of Bellevue—required several creative new solutions for the Crosslake connection to close a gap in the area’s transit system.
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Local officials control a diverse array of tools, ranging from altering street designs to installing speed cameras to adjusting traffic signalizations. Given reelection considerations, the most appealing tactics will be both effective and acceptable to the public.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York have teamed up to file a lawsuit in order to get $15 billion in federal money released for the Hudson River Tunnel project.
The project proposes to have Amtrak passenger trains run between Scranton and Manhattan’s Penn Station with stops in Mount Pocono and East Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania, and Blairstown, Dover, Morristown, Montclair and Newark in New Jersey. It would mark the return of passenger rail service between Scranton and NYC for the first time since 1970. PennDOT will host a virtual public meeting webinar on the project on Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.
New York and New Jersey sued the Trump administration on Tuesday in an effort to unfreeze federal funding for a new set of train tunnels under the Hudson River.
The $1 billion that it could cost the state to make city buses free could instead fund the construction of 41 miles of subway extensions, according to a report by the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University.
Before 2020, much of U.S. transit planning, especially in metropolitan areas with long-established rail networks, was built around the weekday commute.
Though changes aren’t noticeable to many, and others feel the tolls are a financial burden, fees have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for public transportation projects. And it has probably contributed to rising transit ridership.
Amtrak had a record year in 2025, reporting more riders and higher revenue than ever before in its 54-year history. For its fiscal year, which ended in September, the quasi-public national rail service recorded 34.5 million customer trips and $2.7 billion in adjusted ticket revenue, representing a 10% year-over-year increase.
If passed, the legislation would strengthen federal oversight of highway-rail grade crossing safety and direct states to explain how they would work with railroads and other stakeholders to reduce pedestrian deaths and suicides along railroad tracks.