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Biden has now announced most of his Department of Transportation leadership. That’s exciting, but of course the big decisions abut how much funding there is get made in Congress, and
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Follow-up on US commuter rail vs. S-Bahn: here’s the New Jersey Transit schedule at Elizabeth, NJ towards NYC. On avg, not counting the overnight gap, there’s a train every 22min,
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This is Indianapolis’ @IndyGoBus Red Line, one of the most remarkable recent transit projects in the US. Indy is a tough place for transit: hostile state government (there’s a legislative
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A westbound South Shore Line train passes through Michigan City, IN, on its way from Chicago (about 60 miles west) to South Bend (about 30 miles east.) Say “South Shore”
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Norfolk Southern freight heads south near Burnside, KY on the“Rat Hole,” a section of the line from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. This railroad, first built 1869-1880, was extensively rebuilt in 1959-1963,
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In “Trains, Buses, People, I note how the Austin Red Line, as a result of political compromise, misses both the highest concentrations of population (red/orange) and jobs (the purple outlines.)
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As we talk transportation, urbanism, cities, and racism, Transit agencies, and the transit industry, should not assume we are the good guys, or, as @Jay_Pitter put it, “bringers of solution.”
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