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| | freakonomics.com
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| | Amtrak's ridership and revenue has been steadily increasing over the last 10 years, and 2011 set a new ridership record with 30.2 million passengers, and $1.9 billion in ticket revenue. But, even though it took in $1.42 billion from Congress last year, it still manages to lose $1 billion annually. This is hardly a new development. Amtrak has a long and storied history of functioning at a loss despite government subsidies.So, as we enter what appears to be a new era (maybe?) of government austerity, it se...
| | homesignalblog.wordpress.com
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| | Over the past few months, American policymakers and transportation scholars have been debating a potentially sizable infrastructure package. In urbanist circles, most discussion has centered around the relative quantities of transit and highway funding, ways the transit funding might be spent, and potential associations between infrastructure monies and land use reform. These topics are unequivocally...
| | seattletransitblog.com
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| | Critics of transit investment - especially rail investment - frequently cite a failure to achieve a budgeted ridership estimate as evidence of the ineptitude or corruption of the agencies planning ...
| | gowithguide.com
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| Depart from Narita airport, and deliver to any ski resort hotel in Hakuba Village. Or, pick you up back to Tokyo Narita Airport. Pick-up and drop-off service...