▼
Showing posts with label high-speed rail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high-speed rail. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How the high Acela fares save taxpayers money

›
We know that Amtrak's Acela and Northeast Regional services are among the few Amtrak services that take in enough in tickets to cover th...
2 comments:
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Density thought experiments

›
In recent posts, I've discussed how density isn't all that important in transit demand, how the idea of "supporting transit...
14 comments:
Monday, January 23, 2012

Density and our goals

›
On my last post I got some great comments! Jeff "Pantagraph Trolleypole" Wood pointed us to Pushkarev and Zupan suggesting that c...
1 comment:
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The population density to support my ass

›
I swear if I read one more time that such-and-such a place "doesn't have the population density to support" transit, or sidew...
5 comments:
Thursday, August 11, 2011

The train to where?

›
I have a question about the California High Speed Rail project. This post is inspired by Alon Levy's recent California high-speed rail ...
6 comments:
Sunday, March 6, 2011

A nationwide rail strategy

›
In the comments on my last post , Alon wrote, "What I've heard from rail advocates is the exact opposite - i.e., complaints that Ob...
2 comments:
Friday, March 4, 2011

Obama's rail strategy

›
In 2009, the President announced that the stimulus package would include eight billion dollars for high speed rail construction. Since then...
4 comments:
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Glamour and honesty

›
In my last post , I echoed Ben Kabak's criticism of Commissioner Sadik-Khan for the use of the term "surface subway." I think...
4 comments:
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Unclear on the concept

›
From an article in the Oxford (Ohio) Press - reprinted by Air Rail News without attribution: The Hamilton Vision Commission is trying to f...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Redundancy, the Northeast Corridor and high-speed rail

›
An interesting discussion sprouted in the comments to one of Yonah's posts about high-speed rail, concerning how to reproduce the succe...
9 comments:
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Redundancy and the Northeast Corridor

›
In my last post , I talked about the value of redundancy in transit networks. Connecting this back to our goals, I think this speaks more t...
2 comments:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

More on trains, speed and comfort

›
A number of readers weighed in with commentary about high-speed rail . Apparently you can walk from car to car on a TGV. And Bruce, I may...
1 comment:

High-speed rail isn't much fun

›
I've got something to say about high-speed rail. I've traveled on the TGV three times, and each time I was really uncomfortable. T...
3 comments: