Since Congress approved $8 billion for high-speed rail in this year's stimulus bill, Illinois has been pushing hard for improvements along the Chicago-St. Louis corridor, which they contend should be the first investment in a Midwest-wide network of fast railways. Now governors Pat Quinn (D) of Illinois and Jay Nixon (D) of Missouri are pledging to work together to fund the corridor connecting their two states....
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I am a resident of the Wilshire corridor (especially the stretch from Alvarado to Fairfax). I live, work and do most of my living along that famous boulevard. And do so easily sans car. Wilshire is lined with places to eat, nightspots, markets, medical offices, famous museums, etc. Apartment complexes cluster in the Miracle Mile, Wilshire Center, Westlake, etc...

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Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House transportation committee, made an interesting comment earlier this month in the Journal of Commerce:...

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More times than we can count, I've heard people say Portland's bike love a lot like what they have encountered in Amsterdam. But a new report out of The Netherlands shows that they really don't compare.....

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Lagos is a huge metropolis - projections put its population at somewhere between 10 and 20 million people - but it lacks an urban rail network. Rather, its citizens mostly rely on small private buses called Danfo or Molue to move about its heavily congested streets and highways. Last year, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority opened the city's first bus rapid transit line, which runs 22 km along mostly separated lanes.....

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After nearly 10 years on the drawing board, construction could start in less than a year on a residential and commercial development above the parking lot at the Castle Shannon T station.  The $38 million Castle Shannon Transit Village has remained in limbo for years because of the cost and logistics of building above the park-and-ride lot on Castle Shannon Boulevard, said James Aiello Sr., a principal at the Lawrenceville-based JRA Development Group...

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San Francisco 49ers legend Joe Montana and his Connecticut-based development partner say they need $47 million in California state bonds to kick-start a 12-acre, mixed-use development around the South Hayward BART Station...

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In 1963, America learned a painful lesson when Pennsylvania Station, an architectural treasure that Senator Daniel Moynihan described as "the best thing in our city," was torn down and replaced with a dreary complex that includes an office building and Madison Square Garden. The rail station, to this day the nation's busiest, was moved underground into a claustrophobic warren of artificially lit passageways and bleak waiting rooms. While there has been an active campaign since the 1990's to rectify the mistake by creating a new and worthy station a block away, the $1 billion-plus project remains tied up in political gridlock.....