- World trade recovery: black CPA firm snares post-9/11
contract to help rebuild New York's Ground Zero
area.
It's been more than two years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, killed thousands, put a hole in the Pentagon, and leveled New York's Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Challenged with rebuilding the transit structure is the Lower Manhattan Transit Recovery Project. According to Sara Banda, ......
- Commuter Rail Breaks Ground
Salt Lake City— Utah Transit Authority officials broke ground on Tuesday, Aug. 30, for the first phase of a commuter rail line linking Salt Lake City and Ogden — five years after residents of Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties approved a sales tax increase to fund the local share ......
- Control technology will make subway service faster,
safer.
Hordes of commuters and tourists are voting with their feet n favor of the discount transit fares offered by Metrocards and free transfers between bus and subway lines in New York City. While this has achieved the goal of encouraging the use of mass transit, crowding on subway station platforms ......
- Draped in flag, Telephonics seeks subway deal
FARMINGDALE - Telephonics Corp., in a race to the wire for a $100 million New York City subways contract, is invoking the flag - both U.S. and New York State - and enlisting potent political allies in a bruising campaign against a German rival. Phil Greco, Telephonics vice president business ......
- All aboard!
SCRRA executive director Richard Stanger helps make sure the trains run on time When the Northridge earthquake hit last January and freeways crumbled, many wondered how some suburban residents would ever get to their jobs in the central city. People in certain isolated parts of town spent so long in ......
- Forecast 2005
Similar to the recent presidential election race, the volume of 2004 construction contract awards in the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are expected to finish nearly dead even with totals reached in the previous year. For the first 11 months of this year, construction contract awards in ......
- Commuter Rail Comes To Utah
The path to building cost-effective and successful public transportation systems is long and slow. Over the life of a project, the construction phase often takes less time than the preliminary planning work required. It takes years to identify the need for new services, plan routes, obtain federal and local authorizations, ......