Light rail project in northern Washington D.C., suburbs, now five years behind its original target, needs more time and money for the team to finish the job.
Protracted work on already late rail link could stretch project completion seven months beyond a fall 2026 target for its new design-build team and for just named state Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld, a sector veteran.
Seattle-area Sound Transit, ENR California/Northwest Owner of the Year, completed a key light rail link in 2021 despite impending management changes and inflationary price hikes.
The Las Vegas City Council has approved a negotiating agreement with a company that wants to build a 19-mile light rail or other high capacity mass transit line along Charleston Boulevard, one of the main east-west arterials in the Las Vegas Valley.
Unforeseen soil conditions and the addition of a protective rail-operations barrier will delay a scheduled 2023 completion of the $2-billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project in Hennepin County, Minn.