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Archive for the ‘Light Rail’ Category
» Mayor of nation’s second-largest city fights to advance city’s transit planning… by twenty years. It’s a job that necessitates a national infrastructure bank that does not yet exist. Forget that old cliché about Los Angeles. It’s not the old highway-obsessed metropolis it used to be. In fact, as L.A. matures, it’s densifying, shedding its abhorrence towards public transportation. The region already has one of the most ambitious transit  Yonah Freemark |  March 1st, 2010 |  Filed Under: Finance, Light Rail, Los Angeles, Metro Rail |  114 comments
» Bridge connecting Oregon and Washington planned for construction start in 2012, with light rail link included. But its new road capacity isn’t needed. In most cities, this debate would have ended years ago, and the results would have been far less pretty. The governors of both states involved are highly supportive of the freeway project, and they’ve unearthed enough financing to pay for it. With state departments of transportation pledging their involvement and money, there wouldn’t been much of margin Yonah Freemark | February 23rd, 2010 | Filed Under: Automobile, Infrastructure, Light Rail, Portland | 16 comments
» Is Nashville advancing a rail system that it cannot handle? From time to time, it’s worth taking a step back. The Nashville region’s bus network is not exactly popular, with a total annual ridership of just less than nine million; that’s about 30,000 weekday trips in a metropolitan area of 1.6 million people. The 32-mile Music City Star commuter rail line, which has operated between downtown Nashville and Lebanon since 2006,
» Referendum on April 6 could determine feasibility of the project. Planners at Metro Transit call Moving Transit Forward St. Louis’ first serious long-range plan for public transportation. For the city’s voters, who will vote in April on a sales tax referendum called Proposition A, its release is better late than never; it is essential that the electorate have a clear understanding of the projects for which their money would Yonah Freemark | February 15th, 2010 | Filed Under: Bus, Commuter Rail, Light Rail, St. Louis | 8 comments
» Sound Transit advances plans for East Link light rail; Bellevue council member leads push for I-405 alignment. In few places in the country is the choice between a quality transit alignment and a miserable one as stark as in Bellevue, Washington, through which light rail trains from Seattle will run by 2020. The Puget Sound’s Central Link light rail line opened last year between downtown Seattle and SeaTac Airport.
» A rail system cannot solve city’s huge problems. Detroit’s half-dead nature has captured the nation’s attention over the past year. Though the whole country continues to suffer from the recession, the emptying of Michigan’s largest city is notable to the degree that its fate seems practically irredeemable: Given its economic, social, and political position, how can the city survive? Municipal leaders and pundits from around the country are |
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