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 December 26th, 2008 |  For whatever reason, the Christmas holiday brought news about a variety of major high-speed rail projects around the country. Here’s the roundup:
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California‘s High-Speed Rail planners are hoping to get $15 to 20 billion out of the coming economic stimulus package. This money, in addition to the $10 billion tax payers approved in November, as well as a few billion more from municipalities and private groups, would allow for the completion of the first stage of the project, from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
The potential flaw in this plan to take some of the federal stimulus
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December 25th, 2008 | We’re not Christian here at The Transport Politic, but we still respect the values of giving and charity encapsulated in the ideals of Christmas. If anything, this holiday should remind us that the most impoverished among us need our support in times of need. Today, when jobs are being lost by the hundreds of thousands, when millions of people are moving from the middle class back into poverty, we should make sure that our society can hold its own weight.
We typically don’t spend time on this blog defending transit, because we assume that our readers are for the most part on
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December 22nd, 2008 | We talk a lot about high-speed rail on this site. We’re convinced it would dramatically improve transportation in the United States, providing a useful alternative for travelling distances up to around 600 miles. Not only are high-speed trains far more ecologically sensitive than automobiles or airplanes, but if well designed and implemented, they are faster than both of the other modes in downtown-to-downtown travel. An intensive effort to bring high-speed rail to the United States would therefore act as a stimulus for inner-city development, something for which we should be pushing if we are to act now in the fight against
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December 20th, 2008 | Quick news updates:
Congressman James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is looking to dramatically improve mass transit’s share of total federal transportation outlays, reports the Wall Street Journal. This would be a dramatic improvement, as transit currently receives 25% of the total allocations put towards highways; Oberstar wants to increase that percentage to 40% – $12 billion in the next year alone.
As we reported last week, the failure of the auto bailout would also mean that the transit agencies that had lost big bucks because of the failure of companies like AIG would not be bailed out. However,
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Upcoming Transit Line Openings: 2012 Early
- ▶ Sacramento Green Line to the River District LRT
March
- ▶ Las Vegas Sahara Corridor BRT
April
- ▶ 23: Rhode Island Wickford Junction Extension CR
- ▶ 28: Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1A LRT
Spring
- ▶ Boston Fitchburg Line Extension CR
June
- ▶ Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1B LRT
- ▶ New Orleans Loyola/UPT Streetcar
July
- ▶ 30: Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
Summer
- ▶ Los Angeles Orange Line Canoga Extension BRT
- ▶ Miami Airport Link Metro
- ▶ New York Nostrand/Rogers BRT
- ▶ San Antonio Via Primo BRT
September
- ▶ 21: Portland Streetcar Loop
October
- ▶ Seattle Sounder Lakewood Extension CR
Fall
- ▶ Calgary Northeast Line Extension LRT
- ▶ Chicago Jeffery Corridor BRT
- ▶ Los Angeles El Monte Transit Center
- ▶ Seattle RapidRide C & D Lines BRT
- ▶ Twin Cities Cedar Avenue BRT
December
- ▶ Dallas Blue Line Extension LRT
- ▶ 3: Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
- ▶ 10: Salt Lake FrontRunner South CR
- ▶ Montréal Train de l'Est CR
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