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• TfL must make cuts or postpone upgrades to plug £460m funding gap

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Arbiter rules taxpayer must fund Tube Liness additional costs for improvements on the London Underground Boris Johnson must make cuts to Londons public transport network or postpone improvements to one of the capitals busiest underground lines after he was told to plug a £460m funding gap in a controversial ...
  12 hours ago

• Level crossing accidents: how we compare in Europe

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  What happens when rail meets road? • Get the data What happens when rail meets road? Apparently some people dont realise that the combination can be dangerous Network Rail released its annual level crossing safety figures today . They show that 13 people died last year and that 145 motorists – almost three a ...
  13 hours ago

• GEO Monitor IPO Newsflash: Queensland Rail

  
  ResearchOracle.com — Authority: 156
  Queensland Rail appoints five investment banks to manage the IPO… If you wish to view the entire report, visit us at GEO Monitor or contact us This report is provided as part of IIR Group Ltd.’s GEO (Global Equity Offerings) Monitor service, which tracks global IPO activity. Our GEO Monitor is the only ...
  17 hours ago

• Business travellers choosing rail over air

  
  Travel news from car rentals Page not found — Authority: 482
  Continued budgetary constraints by employers have left many business travellers increasingly choosing to make their journeys by rail rather than road or air, as the purse strings that have been so steadfastly tightened during the recession show little signs of being loosened. Statistics released by the Guild of ...
  19 hours ago

• A Question for John Hickenlooper

  
  The Antiplanner — Authority: 128
  A governor is the taxpayers’ last line of defense against money-hungry bureaucrats who incessantly seek their “fair share” of worker incomes in the form of higher taxes for all sorts of boondoggles. Governors can limit the amount of money that agencies request, they can veto excessive spending bills, and they ...
  20 hours ago

• Professional Land Surveyor News: NEW European LiDAR and Mobile Mapping Conference

  
  Eric D. Colburn, Professional Land Surveyor — Authority: 129
  NEW European LiDAR and Mobile Mapping ConferenceThe European LiDAR Mapping Forum [ELMF10], to be held in The Hague from November 30 – December 1, 2010 is a two-day technical conference focussing on the use of airborne, bathymetric and terrestrial LiDAR with a particular focus on mobile mapping to support transport, ...
  23 hours ago

• Rail subs raise big bucks for pols

  
  Biz Bites| Biz Bites blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 398
  The largest public construction project in state history has become a huge source of campaign funds for Hawaiis gubernatorial candidates. Employees of companies working on the $5.3 billion Honolulu mass transit system have donated more than $100,000 to Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann during the second half of 2009, or ...
  1 day ago

• Transit services for seniors and people with disabilities

  
  PortlandOnline — Authority: 169
  From Multnomah Countys website, information on TriMets LIFT and Honored Citizen programs, Ride Conections programs, and more.
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• Combined threat of British Airways and Network Rail strikes could disrupt travel plans for millions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  British Airways cabin crew warn walkout is looming, with Easter weekend the likely target for rail workers Industrial action is threatening to disrupt the travel plans of millions of rail and air passengers over the next month as disputes at Network Rail and British Airways move towards strike action. A walkout by ...
  1 day ago

• Westside Commuter Rail: A Financial Train Wreck

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 414
  Westside Commuter Rail: A Financial Train WreckBy John A. Charles, Jr.             Download the pdf hereFebruary marked the one-year anniversary of the Westside Express Service (WES), the 14.7-mile commuter rail line that runs from Wilsonville to Beaverton. While the train’s owner, TriMet, has gone to ...
  1 day ago

• A Train Ride to Derby, Saved by a Teletubby

  
  LandingPadLondon.com, your alternative guide to London — Authority: 123
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/33278177@N00/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 At the end of the first week of my trip to London, I took a train up to Derby to spend some time with a friend. My red suitcase was very heavy by this point, not only with the souvenirs that I had bought so far, but also two pair of Merrell shoes for my ...
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• Brazil Map and Video Site

  
  Jetsettersblog — Authority: 154
  The Brazilian Tourist Board, Embratur, partnered with Google Brazil to produce the first Google/YouTube brand channel, combining videos and Google maps to provide an interactive online Brazilian tourism experience. Now accessible at www.youtube.com/visitbrasil  the site currently features more than 85 videos from ...
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• Adonis abandons plans to beat UK rail speed record

  
  Westminster Blog — Authority: 556
  The long-awaited government white paper into high speed rail is coming out on Thursday, I’m told. Expect great fanfare over Britain’s plans for super-fast trains linking London to the north.*Apparently Lord Adonis had examined plans to bring over a French train to break the UK rail speed record on the day; it ...
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• City managing director responds on HPR, and Legislature tries another route to undermine legal reviews of the rail EIS

  
  i L i n d . n e t — Authority: 129
  We were just a couple of blocks from home on the last leg of yesterday’s early morning walk when a friend stopped her car and rolled down the window. She was laughing. “You’re being quoted on public radio right now!” It was a surprise to me. It was late afternoon before I learned that Honolulu Managing ...
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• ACCC issues draft decision on Hunter Valley Rail

  
  Dynamic Business — Authority: 488
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft decision not to accept the proposed access arrangements lodged by the Australian Rail Track Corporation for the Hunter Valley rail network in their current form, on the basis that they are unlikely to be appropriate under the Trade Practices Act ...
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• Millions face Easter travel chaos as national rail strike is threatened

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Signallers and maintenance workers balloted over job cuts Millions of rail passengers face disruption to their Easter travel plans amid the threat of a first national rail strike since 1994. Signallers and maintenance workers with the RMT union are being balloted on action over job cuts and changes to working ...
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• In solidarity with my main man Irish Joe Biden, I’ve...

  
  Bout of Context — Authority: 117
  In solidarity with my main man Irish Joe Biden , I’ve showered the National Association of Rail Passengers with tens of dollars for their intercity rail transit advocacy. The swag arrived today. On a related note, it’s just a matter of time until I rock the Crescent end-to-end with my membership discount. I ...
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• World-Class Fantasy, Not So Classy Reality.

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 435
  Here in Seattle, a favorite phrase of politicians is “Don’t you want Seattle to be a world-class city?” On the national scene , it’s just like the first lines of this article: President Obama has repeatedly insisted that there is no reason why Europe or China, rather than the United States, should have the ...
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• National Rail strike threat

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 957
  Rail passengers are facing the threat of the first national strike in 16 years with maintenance workers and signallers threatening to walk out
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• World Speeds Past U.S. in Rail Movement

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 134
  There has been plenty of talk lately about high-speed rail. If that talk eventually turns into action and Indiana ends up in the fast lane, all we can say is it’s about time. America takes a back seat (way back) to other countries when it comes to moving people on the rails. A few examples from around the world: ...
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