“there’s still a lot of work left before they are running up and down H Street and Benning Road.” The city is busy working on laying the tracks for these two lines, but they aren’t expected to be up and running until 2012 at the earliest…
D.C.’s Streetcars Finally Being Shipped from Czech Republic - DCist
amtrak has a new website!
trip from washington to sacramento will still take 74 hours but will only cost $250.
The NYC Subway Ridership Map by Sha Wang is an interactive visualization that shows ridership levels for various subway lines.
Currently only 5% of Dubai residents use public transportation, but authorities are hoping to raise that number to 20% by keeping regular fares between 50 cents and $1.50, the same as the bus system.
Dubai unveils $7.6-billion mass-transit rail system — latimes.com
“Montrealers are the lucky first recipients of a bunch of Bixi, North America’s first large-scale bicycle-sharing system, and boy are those bikes sexy. They’re computer-chip based, solar-powered, WiFi-enabled and have an old-school shape that’s easily recognizable. They also have LED head and taillights and a bell!
We’ve got 3,000 of these bikes set up between 300 downtown bike stations. It works like this: swipe your credit card in the pay station, ride off on your bike, return it to one of the 300 stations around town.”
from Bixi bicycles in Montrea | Addictive DJ Designs via lighterfootstep
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japan - robot - bicycle - storage
(you may see an ad - sorry but that’s how newspapers make money)
greater greater washington
The Orange bus line in Los Angeles: Dedicated bus lanes built over an old rail right of way create a service that’s “like a train on rubber tires.” With 22,000 riders, it’s getting three times as much traffic as was projected. A nice stations, bike facilities, low fares, and service every six minutes are among the features that make it a hit with commuters.
Now, all of you know this is not some fanciful, pie-in-the-sky vision of the future. It is now. It is happening right now. It’s been happening for decades. The problem is it’s been happening elsewhere, not here.
The White House - Blog Post - A Vision for High Speed Rail
Soon in California perhaps
In Stuttgart, Germany when bicycle use far exceeded the capacity of the transit system, officials sought a creative alternative without limiting commuting options.
