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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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ยป A proposal for New York regional rail improvements. This is the second post in a two-part series by guest author Alon Levy. This part describes a proposed regional rail network. The first part ex...
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Last week1 Casey had a blog about High Speed Rail (HSR), and it triggered my worst impulse: my need to argue on the Internet. Casey suggested that I write my own post rather than just being cranky in his comments, and while my initial instinct was to continue to be cranky, I must admit that he was right and I should be more contstructive. The starting point for all of this discussion is the continued boondoggle of trying to create a HSR between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Just to get this out of the way up front, there is no way in hell I would ever consider defending how this project is being implemented. I think HSR has a lot of opportunity in America, but the CA project is spending way too much2 for way too little compared to our peers. America needs t...
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Okay, as promised in the previous post, here's my version of the Queensland passenger rail network as a diagram. As is usual for these redesigns, I've only spent a few hours on this - just to show that better design doesn't necessarily need to take a lot of time. Everything is meant to be simple...
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