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Via’s Bras d’Or service right on track
(The Halifax Daily News posted the following story by Stephen Bornais on its website on May 15.) HALIFAX, N.S. -- After spending the last three years selling seats on its tourist train to Cape Breton Island, Via Rail Canada now understands who buys them. Of the 2,500...
VIA’s investments in the Maritimes already benefit travelers and tourists
(VIA Rail issued the following news release on May 14.) MONTRÉAL -- With the summer season around the corner, VIA Rail's continuing investment in cars, services and stations is strengthening its partnership with Eastern Canada. As the tourist season approaches, VIA is...
DOT awards grant to University of Wisconsin for transportation education and research
(The Department of Transportation issued the following news release on May 14.) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Transportation Acting Research and Special Programs Administrator Samuel G. Bonasso today announced a grant of $916,300 to the University of Wisconsin to...
Editorial: UP must try harder
(The Sacramento Bee posted the following editorial on its website on May 15.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Imagine being late to work three days out of 10 -- not just a few minutes late, but an hour, sometimes more. That's the sad reality for commuters who rode Capitol...
Derailment case draws Eunice attorneys closer
(The Opelousas Daily World posted the following article on its website on may 14.) EUNICE, La. -- People in Eunice remember the May 27, 2000, Union Pacific Railroad derailment the way the old timers of St. Landry Parish remember the 1927 flood. A near-panic fell over...
EVTAC’s closure forces DM&IR cuts
(The Duluth News Tribune posted the following article by Peter Passi on its website on May 14.) DULUTH, Minn. -- The train that leaves EVTAC today could haul the final taconite pellets to ever be produced by the facility. The plant ceased production Wednesday, and...
Final cleaning gives Tamaroans a whiff of February derailment
(The DuQuoin Evening Call posted the following article by John H. Croessman on its website on May 15.) DuQUOIN, Ill. -- Vicky Morris says every now and then you still get a pungent whiff of vinyl chloride from last February's derailment of a Canadian National Railroad...
Opinion: Thank you, Judge York
(Newsday posted the following column by Ray Sanchez on its website on May 15.) NEW YORK -- Chances are nobody noticed State Supreme Court Justice Louis York on the subway last night, but millions of bus and train riders will have heard of him by the morning rush. It...
Rolling back the hike
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell, Joshua Robin and Tom Demoretcky was published by Newsday on May 15. Newsday staff writers Sumathi Reddy and Dawn Wotapka contributed to this story.) NEW YORK -- A Manhattan judge yesterday ordered the Metropolitan Transportation...
Judge orders fare increases rescinded for New York City
(The New York Times published the following article by Randy Kennedy on May 15.) NEW YORK -- A State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday to rescind the transit and commuter fare increases that were approved two...
