December 28th, 2010
Martin Engel is a typical northern Californian who says he is “not a Libertarian or absolute free market idealist.†But he has become skeptical of high-speed rail, and through his email list has kept people up-to-date on the various shenanigans at the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Now he has started a blog, High-Speed Train Talk, [...]
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December 27th, 2010
Ken Orski's NewsBriefs are a great source of a political overviewpoint about what's going on with high-speed rail. Let's just say that what he finds happening, as HSR projects receive the federal promise of funding, is underwhelming.
The defenders will tell us to be patient; this is only the beginning. Anything this momentous will have a rough start. Well, no.
What we are seeing is the result of no planning. ...
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December 21st, 2010
Here's what Senator Pam Roach (R-Auburn) sent out earlier today: Last month I requested an informal opinion of Attorney General Rob McKenna regarding the effects of I-1053. Specifically, I asked if the Transportation Commission was still able to impose toll...
Posted by Tim Eyman |
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December 21st, 2010
Sound Transit released their 3rd Quarter Ridership Report today. Year-to-date ridership on light rail is 5,237,792 passenger trips, or an average of 23,170 trips per week day. Ridership continues to grow, but at a much slower pace than what Sound...
Posted by Michael Ennis |
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December 21st, 2010
Sound Transit released their 3rd Quarter Ridership Report today.
Year-to-date ridership on light rail is 5,237,792 passenger trips, or an average of 23,170 trips per week day.
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December 21st, 2010
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Sound Transit OKs its budget for 2011Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription)Sound Transit approved its 2011 budget, which includes an extra $100000 for further study of ways to reduce noise from light rail trains. ... |
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December 20th, 2010
No word yet on whether the WTC will defer to the legislature or move ahead with the fare increase that was recently approved. Without the authority to set tolls or ferry rates, what else is left for the WTC to...
Posted by Michael Ennis |
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December 17th, 2010
As soon as I was out of traffic, I tweeted out a warning about what appeared to be a speed trap (of course, police prefer to call it an “enforcement mission"). One of my tweeps replied that he hoped that the police were more forgiving than those who went after a South African Twitter user known as @PigSpotter.
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December 15th, 2010
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December 15th, 2010
The Federal Transit Administration has published the 2009 National Transit Database, which includes loads of information on every federally subsidized transit system in America. Unfortunately, the data come on about 20 hard-to-read spreadsheets (this version, known as the “data tables,†are easier to read but harder to use for calculations). So, once again, the Antiplanner [...]
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