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 October 30th, 2009 |  » Eurostar has 85% market share on direct trips to and from London; trips requiring transfer, however, have less than 5% share.
Slightly less than fifteen years ago, Eurostar began offering services under the English Channel between the United Kingdom and continental Europe. The line has been met with unequivocal success. Railway Gazette reports today that Eurostar has grabbed an 85% share of the air-rail market on trips between London and Paris, Bruxelles, and Lille. The speed-up of the service over the years, from 2h56 between the French and UK capitals in 1994 to 2h15 today, has played a large role in
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October 29th, 2009 | » Initial line would extend from Monterey to Marina, with eventual extension to Castroville; commuter rail to San Francisco also due by 2012.
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC), California, approved plans yesterday to open a new light rail line by 2015 between Monterey and Marina. A future phase would reach north to Castroville and east to Salinas; both would interface with planned Caltrain and Amtrak service along the corridor.
The route, which extends along the coastline, would also serve the towns of Seaside and Sand City, but the combined population of the affected municipalities totals fewer than 100,000 — meaning that
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October 28th, 2009 | » Lines could be completed in ten years; is it the right investment?
Like seemingly every other city in the country, Washington, DC is planning a streetcar network. Its transportation officials, however, seem uniquely positioned to actually construct their system; unlike other municipalities, Washington is installing tracks in the ground — albeit with no power source — and owns several streetcar vehicles — though they’re in storage in the Czech Republic.
Last week, Greater Greater Washington broke the big story, which is that the District plans eight streetcar lines to be built in three phases, to extend 37 miles across the city. Beyond
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October 27th, 2009 | » New link proposed between City Hall and the waterfront — but how will trains traverse the T-shaped corridor?
Philadelphia has some of the biggest unmet transit needs in the country, but its transit planners have frequently been unable to expand core capacity by adding fixed-guideway service to major routes. SEPTA, bogged down in the maintenance and repair of its decades-old subways and subway-surface light rail lines, has been unable to find the funds or political will to build new projects; its last attempt, the Roosevelt Boulevard subway extension, went down in flames.
But the Delaware River Port Authority, which runs the PATCO
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October 26th, 2009 | » A full regeneration of the line, speeding trains between New York and Boston in just over three hours, would cost $10.2 billion.
After releasing studies last week that described the costs and benefits or new long-distance rail services, Amtrak has produced a report evaluating opportunities for its most important line, the Northeast Corridor. Long in the coming, the study documents capital needs for the tracks connecting Washington, DC and Boston and provides some preliminary cost estimates for decreasing travel times. With most federal rail capital funds now likely to be earmarked for states pursuing new rail programs like California, Illinois, and
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October 23rd, 2009 |
» A shift to SR520 could be a big step back, but Mayoral candidate McGinn wants both, starting with I-90. Is he promising too much?
In a Wednesday night mayoral debate, candidates for the post of Mayor of Seattle Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan debated the future of the SR520 bridge, which connects Seattle and Bellevue over Lake Washington. Mr. McGinn, who has run a strong pro-transit campaign, suggested running light rail over the bridge, instead of expanding the number of car lanes, a position that Mr. Mallahan endorsed and which is currently in planning. According to Mr. McGinn, light
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Upcoming 2010 September
- ▶ FTA Releases TIGER Round II Grants
- ▶ 30th - FRA releases HSR FY 2010 Grants
December
- ▶ 6th - Opening of Dallas Green Line Phase II
- ▶ Opening of Los Angeles' Expo Line Phase I
2011 January
- ▶ Opening of Sacramento Green Line to the River District
May
- ▶ Opening of Hampton Roads Tide
Spring
- ▶ Opening of Salt Lake City Mid-Jordan TRAX
- ▶ Opening of Denton County A-Train
December
- ▶ Opening of Pittsburgh North Shore Connector
- ▶ Opening of Dallas Orange Line Phase I
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