To create the new MAX Orange Line, part of the existing light rail system in Portland, Ore., workers added seven miles of track from southeast Portland to Milwaukie.
A 3.2-mile addition to the Phoenix metropolitan area’s Valley Metro Rail system, the Northwest extension was constructed along 19th Avenue from Montebello to Dunlap avenues, a section of roadway with high traffic counts and more than 300 property owners.
The Exposition Light Rail Transit Phase 2 in West Los Angeles is a textbook case in how to maneuver through major city arteries, say Best Projects judges.
Six tunnel segments on a single light rail extension project offered plenty of opportunity for Sound Transit to run amiss of target dates, costs and plans.
Monday, August 8, was supposed to have been a day of celebration for Maryland’s Purple Line, as state transportation officials and the Federal Transit Administration would officially ink an agreement for a $900 million New Starts grant for the new $5.6 billion light rail system across Washington, D.C.’s northern suburbs.
Maryland transportation officials have chosen a private consortium to design, build, operate, maintain and partially finance the 16.2-mile Purple Line light-rail line across the northern Washington, D.C., suburbs.
Notable news items include the President budgeting $600 million for projects in Washington and Oregon, progress on Amazon’s new Seattle campus, Alaska’s construction spending outlook, and more.
There is one bright spot in the December “termination for convenience” of the main contracting joint venture on the Boston area’s Green Line Extension light-rail project: No one is pointing fingers at the contractor as the key culprit behind the project’s soaring cost, which currently is $700 million to $1 billion over its roughly $2-billion budget.
