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thetrolleydodger.com | ||
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willhaley.com
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| | | | Lakewood is a funny street. It abruptly ends in places. It gets cut off by a building or courtyard here and there. In some areas it is unusually wide. I used to live by Lakewood and Wrightwood and would ocasionally notice train tracks on Lakewood surfacing from under the pavement. Some stretches were only visible where the pavement was worn, but some stretches of track were totally exposed and maintained to the point that a rail car could fit. Indeed, I sometimes saw a rail car out in the middle of the street every now and then. I have no idea how they ended up on these islands of exposed rail (brought there by truck for temporary storage I'd assume). | |
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pedestrianobservations.com
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| | | | The Regional Plan Association ran an event 2.5 days ago about New York commuter rail improvements and Penn Station, defending the $16.7 billion Penn Station Expansion proposal as necessary for capacity. The presentation is available online, mirrored here, and I recommend people look at the slides to understand the depth of the ignorance and incuriosity... | |
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leifgehrmann.com
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sf.streetsblog.org
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| | BART has finally dropped its outdated policy of banning bicycles aboard trains during rush hours. After an uneventful four-month trial, the BART Board of Directors voted unanimously this morning to lift the bans permanently. The East Bay Bicycle Coalition tweeted that Robert Raburn, its former executive director and a current BART board member, was "pinching [...] |