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"It will also prevent mines from delivering their products to their ... destinations." Rail transport has grown more important to U.S. and Canadian oil producers as pipelines have filled with surging production from the Alberta tar sands and Bakken shale ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:52 | Source: YAHOO!
The crude oil flows thick and black, pouring like hot coffee sludge into a rail tanker on the Saskatchewan prairie. The tracks it sits on bisect a snow-covered tableau of wheat fields and grain elevators and oil wells. The rails stretch past the horizon ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:09 | Source: Globe and Mail
SMRT is asking the transport authority to share the costs of its upgrades, which will include the wooden rail ties and locking claws, by 2019. SMRT awarded a S$195 million contract to replace the signaling system to a unit of Thales SA in February.
May 23, 2012 at 02:16 | Source: Bloomberg
“In November Network Rail said the alternative proposal met capacity and the Department for Transport agreed in January. “But a group of MPs with vested interests don’t seem interested in that or the independent damning scrutiny by the Major Projects ...
May 23, 2012 at 10:58 | Source: Daily Telegraph
An ACT Government commissioned report by consultancy firm URS found a light rail route between Gungahlin and Civic would cost between $700 and $860 million. But the Tourism and Transport Forum estimates a typical light rail network for Canberra should cost ...
May 23, 2012 at 00:57 | Source: au.news.yahoo.com
Robert Dow, from Rail Back on Track, says the last week's Federal Budget provided only minor improvements for public transport users. Mr Dow said the best news was a plan for the Moreton Bay rail link to be completed in 2015/16. But he said fare ...
May 14, 2012 at 14:22 | Source: couriermail.com.au
The survey, by consultants Winton Sustainable Research Strategies, found just 13.7 per cent of Canberrans thought the current transport arrangements were acceptable, while 65 per cent said either light rail or rapid buses should be introduced, and 21 per ...
May 20, 2012 at 20:41 | Source: The Canberra Times
THE UK Government has been accused of discriminating against Wales after it emerged it was spending more on a new London railway station than it is prepared to spend on electrifying the main London to South Wales rail line. The Department for Transport is ...
May 26, 2012 at 08:03 | Source: WalesOnline
"We need something," Ms Dale said, "but I don't know that the light rail is a total solution." "I think we need to look further afield at a combination of transport options." Ms Dale and Mr Byrne both agreed that it was a positive step by the council to ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Parramatta Sun
THE Department for Transport is being urged to spend £70 million on track improvements in Derby. Network Rail, the organisation for the nation's railways, has said that the investment would pay for itself. Changing the track layout at Derby would prevent ...
May 26, 2012 at 06:30 | Source: This is Derbyshire