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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

Austria’s Porr Group has won a €428m design-and-build contract to renovate a 33km railway that runs between the southwest Romanian cities of Craiova, Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Caransebeș. The project will…

Switzerland’s Implenia has won a €200m contract to build two rail tunnels under Frankfurt for German state rail infrastructure operator DB InfraGO. The route will run from a new S-Bahn…

Skanska has signed a US$160m contract to build the underground Skøyen metro station in Oslo, Norway. Located 45m below ground, the two track station will serve the Fornebubanen metro line,…