http://www.responsibletransportationforum.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fred Jandt’s rethinking rail article on the Mass Transit web site (discussed here on Monday) offhandedly mentioned “what Foothill Transit did this week” with buses. That was a reference to the introduction of some of the first all-electric buses in the U.S. A mere 10-minute recharge of the batteries on ... http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=3703 President Obama’s new “plan“–more of a sketch, really–to “Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways” calls for spending $50 billion rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, building and maintaining 4,000 miles of rail, and rehabilitating 150 miles of airport runways and installing a modern air traffic control system. Where do ... http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=3743 Will a high-speed rail line ever be built from San Francisco to Los Angeles? The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has less than 10 percent of the money it needs to build this line. The plan is increasingly under fire from local and state organizations. On one hand, President Obama’s ... http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=3694 Cash-strapped Metro targets drivers' paySeattle TimesJeff Welch, a part-time driver who writes Puget Sound Transit Operators Blog, has waged a war of words with the union about overtime. ...and more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGFjmXbyE2jvXeCHy5f4A0pCwI9ng&url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012834601_metrodriver08m.html “We need to rethink rail,” says Fred Jandt, the editor of Mass Transit magazine. After first defending his credentials as a rail and transit advocate, he admits, “Rail is expensive.” That doesn’t necessarily mean it is “prohibitively” expensive, he says, “but it may be something we need to rethink.” This ... http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=3692 Seattle's $190 million Mercer Corridor Projects launches Wednesday. A reader wants to know how the city plans to fix the confusing I-5 off-ramps into South Lake Union. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/426170_gettingthere6.html?source=rss The owner of a beauty shop who applied for a loan from a community development fund received a response calling her “one crazy ass bitch” and suggesting that she was under a “delusion that somehow you might be credit worthy.” The author of the letter, who was suspended for a ... http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=3685 Authorities increase security at Federal Way Transit CenterNorthwest Cable NewsIn response to the violence, Geoff Patrick with Sound Transit says security has been increased significantly at the Transit Center. For the first time, ...and more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNG-UcxLWiOTveAVzfpVP2qTT0JGwg&url=http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Federal-Way-Attack-102183624.html Sound Transit to run one-car trains to save moneySeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)Sound Transit will start running one-car Link light rail trains on "evenings and weekends when no event makes high ridership likely," Seattle Transit Blog ...and more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH4--5ZnozYMyuf3qQQ83G_TkOrAA&url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/transportation/archives/220245.asp Check out the latest addition to SoundInfo, our collection of news apps and interactive resources: A map showing red light and school zone enforcement cameras in South Sound. The map visualizes the proliferation of photo enforced traffic zones we've been reporting for the last several years as they've gone live ... http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/09/03/new-on-soundinfo-red-light-camera-locator-map/