Sporadic transit news update, 3/1
- Austin commuter rail sets up financing to buy rail cars. They'll need those.
- D.C. Metro is testing out new rail cars with a different seating configuration. Expect much rejoicing.
- Those free papers they're giving out at subway stations are causing an increase in fires.
- Korean rail workers strike. Note: Opening a jar of kim chee in an enclosed space, such as a train car, would get you shut down by OSHA around here.
- LA's proposed "subway to the sea" could take a decade to build.
- Baltimore double-tracks it. Usually, "tracks" have a different meaning in Bawlmer.
- Central Florida town votes for commuter rail.
- Work is beginning on the Bangalore Metro. Insert outsourcing joke here.
- NYC subway workers find another Revolutionary War-era wall. No word yet on whether it was Peter Stuyvesant's pegleg that caused the F train delay last week.
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rj3 | 10:39 PM |
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LOL at the Baltimore joke, literally! You are so right.
Woe to LA's subway! what a costly enterprise, that will serve only to mire the city in debt, Yes, the extension would be heavily travelled...by LA standards. For 10 billion they could BLANKET the city in light rail or street cars. The reason the Wilshire cooridor is so developed and so heavily travelled is because street cars used to run between downtown and Santa Monica and Marina del Ray back when LA was a sleepy beach resort/wild west cow town back in the early 1900's.
