IRELAND's transport minister Mr Leo Varadkar today signed the first construction contracts for the €368m project to connect the Luas light rail Red and Green Lines in Dublin City Centre.
A REPORT published today by Britain's National Audit Office (NAO) into the early stages of planning for High Speed 2 (HS2) suggests the Department for Transport (DfT) needs to strengthen the strategic business case...
SWISS intermodal operator Hupac achieved a small profit of SFr 4.4m ($US 4.5m) last year, up 65.6% on 2011, despite a drop of 7.8% in total revenues to SFr 454.5 million.
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UK PUSHING FOR NATIONAL HSR VISION
A leading high speed rail campaigning group has called for a greater national network of high speed lines connecting all the major cities and the main airports to be considered by the Department of Transport, after the government confirmed its intention to go ahead with HS2 in the Queen's Speech.
Jim Steer of Greengauge21 outlined the need for a 'genuinely national plan', which would add new HSR routes - including some travelling broadly east-west - to the system currently being developed between London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, South Yorkshire, Leeds and Manchester.
The new plan envisages a second north-south High Speed corridor between London and Scotland serving the East Coast via Cambridge and Newcastle.
There would also be new HS links to Heathrow, Stansted, the South Coast, Cardiff and Bristol, and potentially onwards into the far south west of England. More info
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SECRETARY LAHOOD ON US HSR NATIONAL VISION
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TRANSBAY STATION CONSTRUCTION - FIRST LOOK
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Construction Well Underway...
One of the largest train stations ever built in America is well underway! This massive bus and train station will nearly stretch from 2nd to Main streets, and will be 5 levels with a 5.4-acre rooftop park, surrounding plazas, and luxury residential and office towers.
The new station will house all major regional bus lines, Caltrain, and California High-Speed Rail, and include major real estate developments as part of it.
The Transbay Transit Center is a visionary housing and transportation project that transforms downtown San Francisco and the region's transport system by creating a "Grand Central Station of the West".
The $4 billion project will replace the current Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets in San Francisco with a modern regional transit hub connecting eight Bay Area counties and the State of California through 11 transit systems. More info
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