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Fast-rail funding triggers transit tiff
(The Orlando Sentinel posted the following article by Jim Stratton on its website on May 4.) ORLANDO -- The billion-dollar rail project that has bedeviled state lawmakers is attracting an unlikely group of critics. Transit officials around the state are warning that...
STB releases final statement on San Jacinto rail line
(The Pasadena Citizen posted the following article by Deanna Sheffield on its website on May 4.) PASADENA -- Surface Transportation Board officials released the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed San Jacinto rail line Friday, bringing a permit...
City’s past and future on track
(The Rutland Herald posted the following article by Gordon Dritschilo on its website on May 4.) RUTLAND, Vt. -- Rail in Rutland has a rich history and, according to one Vermont Agency of Transportation official, a bright future. Rutland chartered the first railroad in...
TSA, DOT issue rules to secure transport of hazardous goods
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release on May 2.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation today moved to secure the transport of dangerous goods, including...
Subway fare goes to $2; commuters’ court challenge denied
(Newsday posted the following Associated Press article by Karen Matthews on its website on April 4.) NEW YORK -- Straphangers grumbled but forked over the extra 50 cents as a fare increase went into effect for more than 7 million bus and subway riders Sunday. The...
Mainline damaged after BNSF derailment
(The King County Journal posted the following article by Wendy Giroux on its website on May 3.) TUKWILA -- A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train from Pasco rear-ended another train at the Black River switching yards early Friday morning, derailing eight empty cars....
Opinion: Bush Amtrak plan headed down the wrong track
(The Missoulian posted the following editorial on its website on April 5.) MISSOULA, Mont. -- The Bush administration last week sketched out its plan to overhaul Amtrak, the money-losing national passenger line that provides service across northern Montana on the...
Who buys American now?
(The following article by Stephanie Franken was published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on May 2.) PITTSBURGH -- All of Jay Bormann's guide-dog trainers belong to a union. When he shops, he looks for American-made products. "I buy very few things that aren't made...
Big plans where trans-U.S. railroad started
(The following Associated Press article by Jim Wasserman was published by the Casa Grande Valley Newspaper on April 30.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- One hundred and forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad, California developers...
Clinton residents remember “Derailment Day”
(The Hartford Courant posted the following article by Michelle Royce on its website on May 1.) CLINTON -- April 23, 1983, started out as a typical day for Nancy and Andrew Berliner, who were working at their office on Route 1 where Andrew was a podiatrist. Somewhere...
