Search Results: 'Long Island Rail Road'

The Manhattan Connection
02 December, 2001
With commuter numbers in Midtown Manhattan set to rise over the next 20 years, pressure is being put on the already crowded Long Island rail service. The $4.3bn East Side Access Project is the largest and most ambitious of its kind ever to be undertaken. Nasri Munfah, vice president and senior professional associate of Parsons Brinckerhoff, takes at look at the challenges to be faced

Scandinavian Smorgasbord
08 July, 2001
Martin Hunt reviews a variety of tunnelling projects currently under way in Scandinavia and assesses prospects for the area's booming underground construction sector

Decade's pick of North American progress
01 March, 2001
At the BTS meeting on 16 November, Lee Abramson of US consultant Hatch Mott MacDonald reviewed tunnelling projects in North America over the past 10 years. He concentrated on schemes with unusual or unique characteristics, examining the progress made in underground works