After decades of planning, setbacks and challenges, the 16-mile, 21-station Purple Line light rail system is set to finish over, under and through Washington, D.C.'s northern suburbs, offering the populated area a new transit link.
After a dozen years that included a successful tunneling feat and an unusual arrangement for station work, a 1.7-mile, $1.9-billion extension of San Francisco’s Central Subway wrapped up this month.
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.
Calgary city officials have given the Green Line light rail project formal approval, giving the project a way forward into the start of pre-construction in late 2017 and 2018.
A project that the team claims is the first of its kind in North America, aimed to dehumidify and rewrap the main cables and anchorages of Maryland’s William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridges—familiarly known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge—to halt corrosion and extend the dual-span structure’s working life.
