Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that $30 million in state funding will be given to support the expansion of Alstom Transportation, Inc., which will add nearly 200 new jobs in Hornell, Steuben County. The project is motivated by Alstom's successful bid to provide Next Generation High-Speed Trains for Amtrak. The expansion will retain more than 1,000 existing positions in Hornell and at Alstom’s operations in West Henrietta. New York State’s support for the project was an important factor in Alstom’s efforts to secure the agreement with Amtrak for the $2.5 billion Next Generation High-Speed Trains program.                

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation guru Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality. 

Transit Awareness Day, January 31, 2017!