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Rest assured, the project is still on track, CRCC is finalising design for plant China’s CRRC Corporation Ltd will begin supplying Metro coaches by mid-2022, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd ( BMRCL) said, clearing the doubt that the project was cancelled. Officials said the company -- which bagged the Rs 1,600 crore tender to supply 216 coaches -- is currently finalising the design of its upcoming manufacturing plant at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. “We will start getting supply in...

BART: Major track rebuild coming between South Hayward and Union City stations. BART/File photo BART will temporarily stop accepting delivery of new Fleet of the Future (FOTF) rail cars beginning January 8, 2021 to allow the manufacturer, Bombardier Transportation, the time to take steps to improve the cars’ reliability and availability, and to alleviate rail car storage constraints at BART’s maintenance yards. One of the issues to be resolved is related to software in the on-board automati...

Down. if he runs past a red signal, the it will automatically stop him. its based on technology thats been around for decades. now, that would only occur if this were a situation, again, like the may 2015 philadelphia amtrak crash where the train operator was going around a curve much too fast or the one back in 2013. it would slow it down. but if there was a rail break, like the rail broke under the train or an axle broke, positive train control isnt going to do anything. >> i also want to brin...

A slight alignment at a low speed. here we have several important things. coming into the curve. they were negotiating a curve. the whole point of of a high-speed train and the reason that amtrak, you know, and any train operator wants to sell it is to go fast. >> yeah. >> so they would be keeping their train at the speed limit and hopefully not above, and the initial indications are is that the speed limit was 79 miles an hour. thats a pretty sharp curve for 79 miles an hour so it looks to me l...

The train are packed to capacity. this one was not. people are hanging from straps and people are standing up and moving about the train and getting a cup of coffee or whatever they want to do. its a trade off and the government regulators make that trait off in congestion with investigations on whats the likelihood you will be killed or injury and what the costs are as opposed to the costs to amtrak and another train operator if everyone is in a seat and belted in. it makes no sense, but you ca...

There is much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the commuter train collision. a train operator in critical condition tonight. one train crashing into another then hitting a third train on the next track. the ntsb is investigating at this hour. the missing boater holding on for his life. clinging to his capsized boat for 12 hours in freezing waters, off the east coast. we have news on his condition tonight. and your money this evening, the new report on why auto insurance is sp...

But apparently what happened is that the train came in at a low rate of speed and actually the train hit a bumping block and that it went off kilter. not it derailed and then had the accident. thats the information we have so far. there were an estimated 600 passengers on board the train when it crashed into the atlantic terminal station here in brooklyn. again the number of injuries up to 103. that certainly could grow. the governor who was here on scene a short while ago they dont know what ha...

Materials. several were hospitalized. the train operator is working with relief agencies currently. theyre working to determine a cause of that accident. so as the summer travel season is hitting its peak were seeing some major news about the countrys airlines. the department of justice saying its investigating currently whether the airlines are colewding to limit the number of available airline seats and in doing that keeping their airfares high. phil lets talk about the investigation and which...

Different depending on whether youre a trucker or bus driver or airline pilot or a train operator. they are complex and to explain it i would have to spend a lot of time looking through the regulations. but they are different according to each mode of transportation. >> the engineers injuries does anything indicate [ inaudible ]? >> does the engineer indicate from his injuries that me may have been struck by something entering the cab and he did not report anything to that effect when we intervi...