- India is looking at high-speed rail now. Will America be the last place to get HSR?
- Art Agnos, the San Francisco mayor who choose the surface-transit option to replace their version of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, says we should do the same thing here. Via the Seattle Weekly.
- The West Seattle Blog has some great information on four transportation projects for that part of the city: the Spokane Street Viaduct, the Alaskan Way Viaduct, West Seattle Rapid Ride and the potential Metro Route 50.
- The traffic turtles that were destroy on city streets due to snow plows, may not be replaced until after the winter’s over, and the stripes that have disappeared won’t be back until the rain is over, probably some time next week.
- One hand giveth… The DC Metro is being extended to Dulles Int’l Airport after all, thanks to a change of heart by soon-to-need-a-job FTA chair Mary Peters.
- The other taketh away… Chicago will not get the $153 million in federal funding it was hoping to get for its four planned BRT lines. I am really interested to see how different cities do BRT.
The state House & Senate’s joint transportation committee met Tuesday morning, in conjunction with the ferry sub-group. Anybody know the gist of the discussion?
But BRT is the salvation of mankind! They MUST fund it!
Apparently there was a dead-line issue, but who’s getting the $153 now?
This is a little off subject, but does anyone know how dificult it would be for all the new parking meter TVM’s to dispense a Seattle Transit ticket, good for x minutes on anything – rail or bus?
I think everyone is searching for a scheme to simplify fare collection in conjunction with Orca cards. This may lead to all door boarding and alighting throughout Seattle
India might get HSR before the US, but I suspect the US will have HSR before say Somalia.
Actually with the passage of the California HSR measure I fully expect we’ll see at least one true HSR line in the US in the next 10 years or so.
I dunno thos rich pirates might hijack some HSR trains.
General note: If you’re ever traveling in Asia I highly recommend traveling by rail. There’s no better way to get to know strangers than be trapped in a box with them for a day. India’s rail was crowded and disorganized but usually on time. China’s rail was well organized and usually on time.
I enjoyed taking rail in india, but boy were those indian air stewardess beautiful.