Transportation

Work on the $157 million Adelaide Rail Car Depot at Dry Creek is on track, with trains to begin testing the new facility within weeks. Premier Mike Rann and Transport Minister Patrick Conlon have toured the 10-hectare site, which toward the end of this

Chennai, Aug 5 : Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd as entered into joint Ventures (JVs) with Mitsubishi and Siemens for participating in Metro Rail and Mono Rail Projects in the country. Pledging its commitment in playing a major role in improving the

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £50,000 and £40,000 costs, following the tragic death in its care of a severely-disabled young man with cerebral palsy. Kyle Flack died from asphyxiation at Basildon

Don Cummins writes: Re. “Forget high-speed rail — there are plenty of better investments to be made in rail” (yesterday, item 10). Bernard is probably right about the underused Darwin-Adelaide rail systems being a waste of infrastructure

Guwahati, Aug 5 : Averting a possible major tragedy, an alert police constable today recovered ten hand grenades, kept in a polythene bag, from the Guwahati railway station at Paltan Bazaar area of the city. Government Railway Police Force (GRPF) sources

Since the early 1980s, a succession of federal governments have considered the validity of a high-speed rail link along Australia's east coast. There is no argument that such a rail line would make a huge difference to the transport routes between

It is telling that Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Anthony Albanese has chosen Melbourne to launch the umpteenth study into a high-speed rail corridor between Sydney and Newcastle.

Metrorail and Rea Vaya BRT will be running extra transport to the Telkom Charity Cup Game at Soccer City tomorrow and the Bafana Bafana game on Wednesday. Parking at the station and the train service to next week's match against Ghana will be free for

Paul Withrington (LTT 544) remarks that I ‘would say that my book demolishes conversion’. He can’t say it didn’t, because he hasn’t read it. How do I know? Because he asks whether I have read Comments & Rejoinders, when my book has a

The allegations have been made in a series of articles in satirical magazine Private Eye Other claims include that he was paid 20,000 a year for renting an elegant apartment in a Georgian square in central London and that he was paid 13,000 a year

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VIRGINIA BEACH -- The commanding view from the 17th floor of the Armada Hoffler building in Town Center is a pretty good sign that the meeting down the hall isn't your normal grassroots gathering. In the conference room of the law firm Williams Mullen

VIRGINIA BEACH -- The commanding view from the 17th floor of the Armada Hoffler building in Town Center is a pretty good sign that the meeting down the hall isn't your normal grassroots gathering. In the conference room of the law firm Williams Mullen

The Czech Transport Ministry plans to suspend 51 road and railway construction projects in 2010 and 2011 if it is forced to make same savings as other ministries. SFDI, the state transport infrastructure fund, will have a budget of 30.69 billion

MARK WEISS AT LEAST seven people were killed and about 30 injured when a train collided with a minibus in the south of Israel. It is believed that all the dead were ultra-Orthodox passengers on the minibus, and included a pregnant woman and two young

Aug. 06--VIRGINIA BEACH -- The commanding view from the 17th floor of the Armada Hoffler building in Town Center is a pretty good sign that the meeting down the hall isn't your normal grassroots gathering. In the conference room of the law firm Williams

Mumbai/Chennai, Aug 5 (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against three officials of the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT), Pune, and two representative of bus maker Ashok Leyland for irregularities.

Somali pirates seized a cargo ship with 24 Syrian and Egyptian crew members on Thursday in the Gulf of Aden, said the European Union's anti-piracy force. The St Vincent and Grenadines-flagged vessel, named the Syria Star, was sailing west through the

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(IPS) - Transport workers are concerned that measures to mitigate climate change, like greenhouse gas emissions reduction, may put their jobs at risk, while experts are urging a transformation of the predominant transport model worldwide. 'The future of