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NYC subway to phase out MetroCards for mobile pay system
New York subway riders will be able to board the system without having to swipe a MetroCard as soon as 2019, under a new plan approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board. The MTA board has approved a contract to phase in a new fare system for bus and rail transit. The MetroCard, in use […]
October 26, 2017
Roadbuilding
10 Most Ambitious Subway Systems in the World
What if you could make a quick trip from New York to London? And what if that quick trip was only an hour long? Well, the Transatlantic Tunnel would have made that possible. The Transatlantic Tunnel, which, according to a 2004 Popular Science article, would have connected America and Europe with a 4,000-mph vaccuum tube […]
December 26, 2013
Construction Equipment
Subway expansion in Delhi to set record with simultaneous use of 34 tunnel-boring machines
Seattle might have the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, but Delhi, India will soon have a record-setting host of the machines at its disposal. Construction workers in India’s capital city have begun Phase III of the extremely complex task of extending the city’s subway system. How complex? The engineering team recently announced that it will be […]
June 28, 2013
Roadbuilding
Majority of Americans want tax dollars used for public transportation
Americans want to see increased funding for public transportation, according to survey data released this month from the American Public Transportation Association and the Mineta Transportation Institute. The results showed that 73.6 percent of respondents strongly supported use of taxes “for creating, expanding, and improving public transportation.” A year ago, 69 percent of respondents agreed. […]
June 4, 2013
Construction Equipment
The equipment (and cost) behind NYC’s Second Avenue Subway
CNN Money has a really interesting piece on the $4.5 billion budget of the first mile-and-a-half segment of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway, currently under construction: What contributes to the mammoth tab? Big machinery, for starters. At $800,000 a piece, equipment such as hydraulic drill jumbos and load-haul-dump loaders can rack up a bill […]
June 14, 2012
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