News 62% of California voters say they want high-speed rail Despite President Trump’s action to cut billions in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail project, a new poll finds that 62% of registered voters in the state – and…
News Webuild wins €1.6bn Italian high-speed rail contract A consortium led by Webuild and including Ghella, Pizzarotti and Seli has landed a €1.6bn contract to build a 22.2km section of the high-speed railway under construction between Salerno, just…
News Porr wins two Polish rail contracts worth €532m Austria’s Porr Group has won two rail contracts together worth €532m from Polish state rail operator PKP PLK for the country’s south east. In the Bieszczady region, Porr won a…
News Starting pistol fired for Portugal’s first high-speed railway The European Investment Bank (EIB) this week released the first tranche of funding – €875m – to start work on Portugal’s first high-speed railway between Porto and Lisbon. The loan…
News Jacobs picked to design Seattle’s $7.1bn light rail extension Dallas-based engineer Jacobs has been selected by Sound Transit to provide design services for a 6.6km expansion of Seattle’s light rail network to the west of the city. The project,…
News Hanoi to start building the first of 14 metro lines this year Hanoi will start building two of 14 planned metro lines in the fourth quarter of this year as it moves on a plan to get people in the Vietnamese capital…
News Aecom, AtkinsRéalis win Hong Kong-Shenzhen rail contract The government of Hong Kong has picked a joint venture of Aecom and AtkinsRéalis to build the Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Rail Link. The JV will…
News FlatironDragados JV wins $414m Virginia rail bypass job The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog. Located some 15 miles south…
News California sues Trump administration over $4bn rail claw-back The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is suing the Trump administration over what it called the administration’s “illegal termination” of around $4bn in federal grants awarded during the Biden administration…
News Parsons appointed project manager on Dubai’s Blue Line Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has appointed US engineer Parsons to project manage construction of Dubai Metro’s new Blue Line. Costing $5.6bn and expected to open in September 2029,…
News Hochtief to modernise 42km section of railway for €172m Hochtief, a German subsidiary of ACS Group, has won a €172m contract from German state company Deutsche Bahn to modernise a 42km-long section of track running along the banks of…
News Strabag wins €360m of work as Czechia overhauls its railways One of the projects is a €714m upgrade of the republic’s busiest station and junction at Česká Třebová, through which 500 trains pass daily (Render courtesy of Strabag) The rail…
News Webuild team wins €2bn contract to extend Rome’s Line C An Italian joint venture of Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €2bn contract to build a 4km extension of Rome’s metro Line C with four new stations. The new…
News Budapest to get its first airport rail link Hungarian economy minister Márton Nagy has unveiled his government’s plan to build a €1bn railway between Nyugati rail and metro station in western Budapest and Ferenc Liszt International Airport to…
News Systra wins France’s biggest high-speed rail project French engineer Systra has won a nine-year contract on France’s biggest high-speed rail project: a 400km-long, Y-shaped line running south from Bordeaux and splitting to go southwest to the town…
News Sener to design Toronto’s Line 2 subway extension The consortium building a 7.8km extension of Toronto’s Line 2 subway – Aecon and FCC Canada – have picked Spanish engineering and technology group Sener to develop its detailed design.…
News Work begins on Dubai’s 30km Blue Line Construction has begun on Dubai’s $5.6bn Blue Line, which runs north to south along a bifurcated route with a total length of 30km. The project is being built by a…
News Trump threatens funding for California fast rail, but 67% of voters support it As the Trump administration threatened this week to cancel around $4bn in funding for California’s under-construction high-speed railway, a survey showed 67% of voters in the state support the project.…