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• Sound Transit’s New Airport Station To Open Dec. 19th

  
  The B-Town (Burien) Blog | Burien News, Events, Entertainment & More, Updated Daily. — Authority: 484
  Dec 19 10:00 am Friday morning (Nov. 13th), Sound Transit announced that its brand new Link Light Rail train station at Sea-Tac Airport will open at 10am Saturday, Dec. 19th. This new station will expand the system from the current end-of-line Tukwila stop that opened in July, and will provide travelers ...
  20 hours ago

• Phoenix streets turning green

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  As the very successful Greenbuild International Conference and Expo wraps up at the Phoenix Convention Center , residents are excited to be able to partake in our own Phoenix Green Streets Festival . The Green Streets Festival is a FREE community event happening tonight from 6PM to 10PM celebrating green ...
  1 day ago

• Metro Light Rail Ridership Numbers – October 09’

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  METRO October light rail ridership – another record-breaking month: PHOENIX — METRO ridership reaches an all-time high with 1,124,924 riders in October.  With 70,000 more riders than the high in September, daily ridership peaked at 41,077 for the average weekday, 30,517 for the average Saturday and 17,160 for ...
  3 days ago

• Light rail, Altamont Pass, etc

  
  VTA Watch — Authority: 106
  Light Rail COA BayRail Alliance is hosting a meeting next week on the COA for the VTA light rail system. VTAs Kevin Connolly will be presenting. As reported here earlier, VTA is conducting a COA for the light rail to outline future system improvements and proposed operation scenarios to boost light rail ridership. ...
  3 days ago

• Join The Annual Rail Life Turkey Drive For 2009

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  Our community rocks . Unfortunately, there are many of us struggling to make ends meet this year. How can you make a difference? Join us in the annual Rail Life Turkey Drive. During last year’s turkey drive we gathered approximately 875 pounds of turkey for needy families! I sincerely believe that many people ...
  4 days ago

• Conventional Wisdom | GreenBuild Expo

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 500
  It’s a beautiful time of year, and the Phoenix Convention Center will delight out-of-state visitors. DPJ extends its own form of hospitality by providing a little Conventional Wisdom, some insight into what can be found/viewed/sipped/snacked on while visiting Downtown Phoenix. In town November 10-14 ...
  4 days ago

• LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives (Source: Rafu Shimpo)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 133
  Link: LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives – Rafu Shimpo LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives By GWEN MURANAKA RAFU ENGLISH EDITOR IN CHIEF === The Little Tokyo Community Council on Tuesday stated its opposition to the two current build alternatives proposed for the Metro ...
  4 days ago

• Treasure Hunt on the Metro — November 14

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 500
  METRO light rail has been a boon for Phoenix’s art scene. Many people are taking advantage of the rail system to get to and from Downtown Phoenix on First Fridays, without worrying about traffic or parking. In addition, several of Phoenix’s premier arts and culture venues and some of our best public art ...
  4 days ago

• A Texas Sized Light Rail Land Dispute?

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  While we continue to watch the local real real estate market here in Arizona, it is fun to keep an eye on how “Transit Oriented Development” is doing in other states, as well. I have mentioned that Denver land values have increased near light rail and I have heard similar things about Houston and other cities, ...
  5 days ago

• CityCircles now in beta testing

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 431
  [Source: Aleksandra Chojnacka, CityCircles] – Are you a resident who lives near the light rail?  A first-time rail rider?  A frequent rail rider?  A tourist just passing through town?  A carless techno-neophyte who needs a guide for downtown Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa?  If so, CityCircles is for you. ...
  5 days ago

• FREE tickets for todays ASU – USC game

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  I have two FREE ASU Football tickets for tonight’s game against USC! All you have to do is be the first to come to meet me at our RailGating spot any time after 4:00 this afternoon! Well, that’s not really ALL you have to do. You have to show a light rail ticket stub and you have to agree to vote for me on the ...
  6 days ago

• Even More on LIght Rail and Transportation Issues for Coatepec

  
  From Xico — Authority: 421
  Another friend said, "I have a few questions regarding the rumor of a new libramiento. The traffic between Xalapa and Coatepec is not as dense as you might believe. Of the times that I have traveled the autopista, there wasnt that much traffic. The only times that I have experienced heavy traffice was a night in ...
  1 week ago

• Does Public Transit help “Walk-ability”

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  In case you haven’t noticed, I happen to think the METRO light rail system has and will continue to significantly change the way many people live in Phoenix , Tempe and in Mesa . Having been in the real estate business for the past 17 years, I have seen a LOT of changes in the industry. I can recall a time ...
  1 week ago

• Some people suck – we prefer to rock!

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  If you are like me, the news of some low life loser stealing a computer and camera equipment from our long time friends at CenPho.tv just about made you want to puke. After all, these guys just want to share information about cool things happening in the city. For someone to steal their equipment, it basically ...
  1 week ago

• Denver light rail - more taxes needed?

  
  Cold Fusion Guy — Authority: 139
  Grand Plans for Rail in Denver Hit a Wall of Fiscal Realities Excerpt: Projected costs have ballooned to nearly $7 billion, and the system faces a budget gap of $2.2 billion, mainly because of a sharp drop in sales tax revenues. Worse still, most rail lines are still on the drawing board, and the 10,000 or so ...
  1 week ago

• How to keep moving by not travelling

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 487
  Ive been working in Portsmouth this week, on a project looking at what happens when the military decides it doesnt want its land anymore. A few years ago it was relatively easy: developers eyes would light up, and to a background of imaginary cash tills theyd draw up plans for penthouse flats and swanky stores. Its ...
  1 week ago

• DC Metro extending Green Line to Fort Meade?

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 444
  Michael Dresser mentions this: The proposal being batted around in Prince George’s would take the Green Line as far north as Route 32 near Savage before it would curve east toward Fort Meade and Odenton. That would make it a lot easier to get to Washington via Metro without getting mixed up in traffic jams. He ...
  1 week ago

• More time to have your say on Wellington’s 30-year plan

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 132
  WELLINGTON: What will it be like in 2040? IMAGE: fifau17.co.nz WELLINGTON people will have to wait a little longer before they find out where their city is headed over the next three decades. A 30-year plan being drawn up by Wellington City Council needs more public input, the council says, so the submission ...
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• Who Would Ever Have Thought?

  
  MaxRedline — Authority: 140
  Certainly not government.  When the "planners" decided that a commuter rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville was worth the diversion investment of transport dollars to "improve" the existing Portland & Western Railroad tracks and associated "upgrades", it never occurred to them that the rules for heavy ...
  1 week ago

• Ashby’s developer defends his project

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  Let me start by saying that I agree with Kevin Kirton , the CEO of Buckhead Investment Partners, also known as the developers of the infamous Ashby highrise, when he says that the “trip number” justification that the city used to block that project for as long as they did was bunk, and that the highrise as ...
  1 week ago

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