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TN MOVING STORIES: Senate to Look At Rail Terror Threat — LA May KO Traffic...
Los Angeles traffic camera (photo by stevelyon/Flickr) After a surprising commission vote, Los Angeles’s red light traffic cameras may be on the way out. (Los Angeles Times) The Senate will hold a...
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Choose Your Own Rail Adventure
“I remember the first time I saw a train go by,” a choked-up grown man says in the video trailer for Railworks’s Train Simulator 2012. He goes on, with a weepy nostalgia that rivals the treacliest...
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New Amtrak Line for Northeast Texas?
An Amtrak train in Fort Worth (photo by StevenM_61 via flickr) (Houston, TX — KUHF) Texas transportation officials are studying the viability of a new Amtrak line in northeast Texas. The 200-mile...
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DC Metro: We Need Rail That Can Handle Hotter Temperatures
The Metro board discusses what caused the July 3 track derailment and train evacuation incident in College Park, Md. (photo by Markette Smith/WAMU) (Markette Smith — Washington, DC, WAMU) More details...
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Explainer: What Happens Now With California’s Bullet Train
The bullet train may be back on track. Earlier this month the California legislature narrowly approved $8 billion dollars in bond money to start construction of the high-speed rail system connecting...
View ArticleFreight Carrier’s Ad Campaign Aims To Make Infrastructure A Hot Topic During...
One of the largest freight carriers in the country is riding into the presidential election with a nationwide television advertising campaign designed to spark debate about infrastructure....
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Rail Hauls One Million of Barrels of Oil A Day From North Dakota’s Oil Fields
A rail terminal near Williston, North Dakota where crude is loaded onto tank cars. Photo by Jackie Yamanaka. (Billings, MT – YPR) – Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) officials say the railroad is...
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Amtrak On Track for All-Time Ridership Record
(photo by Aaron Hockley via flickr) Amtrak had its single best month ever this July, and the railroad says when it closes the books on September, it will have set ridership records for each of the last...
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NY MTA Chief Talks Fare Hikes & Why President Reagan Was A Hero Of Mass Transit
NY MTA Chairman Joe Lhota. (photo by Stephen Nessen / WNYC) (New York, NY – WNYC) Joe Lhota, chairman of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was a guest on The Brian Lehrer Show Thursday,...
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NJ Transit Chief: We Thought We Had 20 Years to Respond to Climate Change
Hoboken Terminal, flooding during Sandy (photo by accarrino via flickr) The head of New Jersey Transit dug in his heels on Monday, defending the agency’s preparations in advance of Sandy — and adding...
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