London 2012: Public Transport Olympics- October 24, 2007 London is hosting the Summer Olympics in 2012, and it's promising a radical solution to the transportation problems inherent when hundreds of thousands of people come together in a two week period to watch sporting events. The plan is to...http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/archives/2007/10/london_2012_pub.html Not Messing Around- October 22, 2007 The Urban Planning Authorities in Beijing have approved the construction of six new subway lines. And they plan on starting work on (all) of them by year end. From the limited amount of press info: The six new lines...http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/archives/2007/10/not_messing_aro.html Crisis in Chicago- October 13, 2007 There is no transit system in America more in danger than Chicago's CTA. The nation's third busiest rail system, after New York and Washington, and third biggest transit system overall, after New York and Los Angeles, the CTA has been...http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/archives/2007/10/crisis_in_chica.html Transit Agency Awards- October 12, 2007 The American Public Transit Association gave out its annual awards recently. The best organization awards went to: This year's winners: City of Elk Grove, Transit Services, Elk Grove, Calif., for agencies providing fewer than 1 million annual passenger trips;...http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/archives/2007/10/transit_agency.html BRT not exactly working in Santiago- October 10, 2007 BRT is all the fad in South America, where projects such as the Transmilenio in Columbia and the RIT in Bogota, Brazil, have awakened the world to the possibility of improving transportation through the construction of rapid bus routes. For...http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/archives/2007/10/brt_not_exactly.html |