Transit news update
- Some folks in Bentonville, Ark., otherwise known as the home of Wal-Mart, are considering light rail. Instead of going to Washington for federal funding, they could just get Chinese knock-off trains for half the price and pay illegal immigrants $7 an hour to drive them.
- Turin's new subway won't be ready for the Winter Olympics. Commuters are directed to the bobsled track as an alternative.
- Pity the poor NYC transit strike scab. Who would have thought that crossing a picket line would make your co-workers angry at you?
- Hudson/Bergen light rail to expand by two stops this month. Unfortunately, the stops will be in North Jersey.
- Georgia Republicans want to give every municipality along a proposed commuter rail corridor a veto. Would sticking a Confederate flag on the train make them feel better?
- No little island nation is going to tell subway riders to break the hallowed one-seat-per-rider rule!
- Much maligned (by us) Charlotte is getting some transit-oriented development along its future light rail line.
- BRT and LRT to solve the traffic nightmare in Lagos, Nigeria. Get your bribes in now, folks.
- More light rail in Buffalo, or just lake-effect daydreaming?
- BRT proposed for Chennai, India. Men with mustaches are apparently happy about it.
- Pittsburgh rail extension could start as early as this summer.
- Commuter rail in New Mexico?
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rj3 | 8:33 PM |
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The New Mexico trains have the best livery in the country.
Check it out: http://www.mrcog-nm.gov/images/Commuter%20Rail/train%20with%20rail%20runner%20SMALLER.jpg
Whoa, those are freakin' sweet!
