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Archive for the ‘Metro 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 |  117 comments
» The city’s largest borough currently suffers from a large gap in service, but relatively inexpensive improvements could address those problems well. Though New Yorkers overall are used to some of the longest commute times in the country, residents of southeast Queens are particularly affected. The inhabitants of this large segment of the borough between JFK Airport and Jamaica, from Brooklyn to the city line, have average travel times to work of Yonah Freemark | February 22nd, 2010 | Filed Under: Commuter Rail, Metro Rail, New York | 27 comments
Few places in the world are as reliant on their commuter rail systems as Sydney; the Australian metropolis’ CityRail attracts more than one million daily passengers. The almost 1,300 miles of track the system includes provide for the transportation needs of most of the rail transit users in the city, though a
» Of the dozens of rapid transit projects under construction and planned for the French capital, few are aimed directly at the center city. The civil unrest that spread across many of France’s impoverished banlieues in October and November 2005 made clear the degree to which spatial separation between classes had resulted in unequal distribution of resources and consequent feelings of disenfranchisement by members of the country’s most needy. Nowhere is this inequality more evident than in the sprawling Paris region, whose 11.7 million Yonah Freemark | January 19th, 2010 | Filed Under: Bus, Commuter Rail, France, Light Rail, Metro Rail, Paris | 22 comments
» $500 million project speeds trips and ensures ADA compliance at all stations. With its century-old rapid transit system, Chicago has a huge maintenance backlog: almost $7 billion in unfunded capital needs, in fact. Fortunately for the city’s commuters, after four years of construction work, the reconstruction of the Brown Line was completed this week. The $530 million renovation program was the largest in the CTA transit system’s history and will provide relief to the corridor’s roughly 100,000 daily riders. The Yonah Freemark | January 13th, 2010 | Filed Under: Chicago, Infrastructure, Metro Rail | 18 comments
» The recession pushes the Governor to argue for changes, including a conversion from heavy rail to light rail; the Mayor of Honolulu stays the course. At $5.35 billion, it was bound to provoke a fight. Honolulu’s planned heavy rail transit system, which would run 20.2 miles between East Kapolei and Ala Mona Center by 2019, is expected to serve more than 100,000 daily riders along its 21-station elevated guideway. That is, if the city is able to secure a federal New Starts Full |
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