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Road and rail improvements near the Meadowlands Xanadu project continue to progress, even though work on the entertainment and retail project has nearly ground to a halt. newstracker: Road, Rail improvements on TRACK for xanadu project

Latest News 2009

Road and rail improvements near the Meadowlands Xanadu project continue to progress, even though work on the entertainment and retail project has nearly ground to a halt. newstracker: Road, Rail improvements on TRACK for xanadu project

Latest News 2009

Knights of the Road, Knights of the Rail is a role-playing game set in the Great Depression.

Boing Boing: September 1, 2002 - September 7, 2002 Archives 2002

In most of the eastern US, providing additional regional transport capacity through Rapid Passenger Rail is cheaper than roadworks and airport infrastructure (and operating costs … we subsidized a far greater amount of air operating costs than any other transport technology), but under current conditions, its much less likely that true HSR would be cheaper.

Matthew Yglesias » The High-Speed Rail Stimulus? 2009

Rail is just as bad an idea in China as it is here.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Just Going to Get Worse 2010

It's also a lot better for the environment, While Light Rail is expensive, look at Orenco Station out in Hillsboro: the area is taking off quite nicely, and that sort of development would never have had a chance without building the light rail line.

Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Three are in existence and the Milwaukie Light Rail is on the drawing boards.

Portland transit mall tax hit jumps 70 percent (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

There are just more 1m+ cities in the Great Lakes, closer together, so that 110mph Rapid Rail is fast enough to be viable, and more existing rail rights of way with available space, so that 110mph Rapid Rail can be built without the expense and time required for new alignments. charles Says:

Matthew Yglesias » John McCain Repeats Vegas HSR Lie, Adds New Non-True Details 2009

Light Rail is being built to get those people from the suburbs to work on time. alexbroner

Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola 2010

Rail is so expensive to build and operate, and so inflexible in its routes and service structure, that once constructed it sucks resources from other modes (especially buses).

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Light Rail Killing Another Transit System 2009