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Street capable rail vehicles on Dumbarton Rail Corridor
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2020/01/09 by
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The Dumbarton Rail project, now a public-private partnership effort sponsored by Facebook, is going through a more detailed study to further define the project and elevate the project into construction ready status, building upon a earlier effort (with a $1 million grant from Facebook) to study the corridor, which proposed a bus and rail element. […]
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The end of a modern light rail line
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2019/12/31 by
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Over the weekend, VTA’s PR team has been promoting the agency’s new bus network that is redesigned around the new BART stations that have yet to open due to numerous construction related delays. Part of the redesign also involved elimination or service reductions of unproductive routes. One of those routes eliminated is the Almaden light […]
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Ubers and Lyfts belong in parking garages
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2019/06/25 by
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SFO recently implemented a policy to relocate TNC pick ups from the curb right outside the terminals to the top floor of parking garages. The reason for the relocation is that the curbside pickup has slowed down traffic for everyone, and at times traffic has backed up onto the freeway. While overall the relocation has […]
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Blast from the past… one of my ideas
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2019/04/24 by
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If VTA actually considered, then we might have a rail connection for quite sometime now rather than still waiting for BART and VTA to settle their issues. I used to have a separate web site for these ideas, but the advent of social media platforms and content management systems, along with changes with my hosting […]
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End of an era in Seattle
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2019/03/22 by
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Today is the last day where buses would operate in the Downtown Transit Tunnel in Seattle. Starting tomorrow the tunnel would be rail only with Sound Transit Link service to SeaTac and UW, but will eventually expand as multiple extension projects complete to Northgate/Lynnwood, Bellevue/Redmond, and Federal Way. I had a chance to visit that […]