Freight is piling up at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as freight rail delays hit a two-year high, owing to record levels of imports on the West Coast, as strikes and the Houthi threat have diverted East Coast shipping.
Slamming the Biden-funded South Bay rail extension plan as a “boondoggle,” Sen. Joni Ernst announced she is working hard to bring down Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s pork project.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that the Department of Transportation has “taken so many steps on rail safety policy” since the East Palestine derailment and is “doing everything we can with the authorities that we already
Sixty thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate, used as a fertilizer but also in explosives, are missing from a rail shipment that was due to arrive in California from Wyoming.
During an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded to a question on whether he has confidence in America’s rail system at this point by stating that “there’s been enormous progress. But there’s a long way
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart stated that the law allowing the government to prevent rail strikes must be changed because rail workers didn’t have the leverage that other workers do. Capehart said
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal government intervening to prevent a rail strike will give companies an advantage in negotiations and creates a moral hazard like the bank bailouts in 2008 and
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh responded to criticisms of the rail agreement signed by President Joe Biden by stating that people who are upset with the deal should “go back and talk to
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “The Open,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh responded to a question on how rail workers are ever supposed to get the paid leave the Biden administration supports when they can’t threaten to strike by stating, “I
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “The Open,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that it ended up being bad for the rail unions that he wasn’t really involved in rail negotiations “until pretty much they were 80% through negotiations, meaning they
The president made a big display in September after he reached a tentative deal to avoid a strike right before the 2021 midterm elections.
Rail strikes perpetrated by “militant” trade unions are due to paralyse the United Kingdom next week thanks to disagreements over worker pay.
Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Several passengers have reportedly been injured after two trains collided near Salisbury, southern England, with authorities declaring the crash a “major incident”.
A blockade near Toronto along a major commuter railway by far-left extremists has forced train cancellations from Hamilton to Toronto.
Foul play is suspected by at least one source following the third train derailment in Canada this month after left-wing extremists called on supporters to sabotage the country’s rail system.
Two Canadian rail networks are suspending trains as protestors continue blockades against a natural gas pipeline project.
London (AFP) — Nearly one million people were affected by a major power outage for several hours across areas of England and Wales on Friday, including parts of London, causing rush-hour transportation chaos.
Both North and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to improve and construct railway lines linking the two countries together, the South’s unification ministry has announced.
California’s terrible commuter rail service speeds and on-time performance are growing worse, due to homeless camps near the tracks and transients wandering on the rails.
California’s bullet train appears to have released a “High Case” estimate of $98.1 billion to prepare the public for much higher tunneling costs.
The “Base Case” estimated cost to build California’s bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has doubled to $77.3 billion, and could almost triple to $98.1 billion.
LONDON (AP) — British commuters are facing stiff increases in rail fares on the first work day of the new year.
Post-referendum Britain is enjoying more good news, as the aerospace sector hits new highs and the railways look set for substantial investment.
On Sunday, the Center for Biological Diversity held a public forum at the San Jose City Hall to educate residents about what they believe are the dangers of so called oil-trains. According to the Center, tar sands oil and heavy crudes that will be brought in from Canada are most toxic, carbon intensive and dirtiest fuels on the planet.
At a symbolic event designed to extol the merits of his exorbitant $68 billion bullet train that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a vacant lot in Fresno and excoriated his critics as cowards, calling them “pusillanimous.”
