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MILWAUKEE - Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) is encouraging Pennsylvania officials to take advantage of the new funding opportunities available for intercity passenger rail.
During a congressional field hearing held in Pittsburgh on Monday, the House Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee ranking Republican member emphasized the need to improve and expand passenger-rail service in western Pennsylvania — a region that's "sorely under-served by intercity passenger rail," Shuster said during the hearing.
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LAKELAND | Renewed efforts by Orlando political and business leaders to make a third try at getting approval for the SunRail project is drawing mixed reactions among their counterparts in Polk County.
On Monday, Orlando leaders held a press conference to announce CSX has agreed to negotiate for the next six months on a revised agreement to sell 61 miles of its track between DeLand and Poinciana.
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CHICAGO - When it comes to trains, there's fast and then there's really, really fast.
Advocates on Tuesday unveiled an $11.5 billion plan for a Chicago-St. Louis high-speed line that could cut travel times to two hours from the current five. If built, it would be among the fastest U.S. lines and would rival high-tech systems already in place in Europe and Asia.
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SOUTH FLORIDA - Tri-Rail’s governing board dug deep and found the money to keep service running at current levels.
The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) on Friday voted to take money from Tri-Rail’s capital funds and shift them to operations, said Joe Giulietti, SFRTA’s executive director.
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AUSTIN – Texas for years has taken a highway-centric approach to transportation, a factor that is likely to put it at a disadvantage this summer as it competes for billions of dollars in new federal money for high-speed passenger rail.
The federal government has offered $8 billion now, and an additional $5 billion over five years, to develop 11 high-speed passenger rail corridors throughout the United States. Two of those corridors run through Texas, including one that would link Dallas to Austin and San Antonio.
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DALLAS - Running the new downtown Dallas rail line by the proposed convention center hotel will cost the most of any of the four options under review by DART and would at least initially attract fewer pedestrians to its rail stations.
Still, city leaders, including Mayor Tom Leppert, strongly support aligning the long-awaited second downtown Dallas light rail line south to the new hotel site and then to an underground station at City Hall. That option was added last year, at the city's behest, to a list of potential routes under review by DART.
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WASHINGTON - Congress will start down one of its longest, most winding and most-lobbied roads on Wednesday as it begins to rewrite how highway and transit programs will be planned, built and funded for the next six years.
Lawmakers face two tough deadlines: Current law governing highway and transit programs expires Sept. 30, and the Transportation Department has estimated that the Highway Trust Fund, which helps pay for the projects, will run out of money in mid-to-late August.
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WASHINGTON | A rush-hour collision between two crowded trains Monday on Washington's subway system killed at least nine people and injured dozens, trapping commuters in a stack of twisted rail cars that rescuers were still searching hours later.
Witnesses say a train near the Fort Totten station on the Metro's Red Line was rear-ended by another train, which climbed atop the stopped cars ahead of it and left a two-level snarl of debris.
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WEST PALM BEACH | Could a last-minute budget move salvage Tri-Rail weekend service?
Again, this year, the state legislature failed to approve a permanent funding source for the South Florida's commuter rail line. Also contributions from the three counties where Tri-Rail runs, are expected to be way down due to the bad economy dragging down revenues.
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ATLANTA | Georgians may soon have a choice of trains - super-fast ones in some cases - to ride between cities on the East Coast just as they do airline flights now.
Though the revival of passenger rail service has been talked of and dreamed of for decades, the federal government is now offering huge sums that could provide the locomotion states need to finally pull the train out of the station. Yet, some critics say other factors aren't yet in place.
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· U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains On the Fast Track (Jun 23, 2009)
· Getting Up to Speed (Jun 22, 2009)
· Light rail rolls, and commuter rail percolates (Jun 20, 2009)
· On board the inevitable (Jun 19, 2009)
· Contractors got $44 million in failed SunRail deal (Jun 18, 2009)
· IBM Opens New Center In China To Drive The Development Of High Tech Railroads (Jun 17, 2009)
· Fact or Fiction: A Mile of Highway Costs More than a Mile of Roadway? (Jun 16, 2009)
· Work to start on $8.7 billion NY-NJ tunnel (Jun 15, 2009)
· Amtrak to operate new state-supported route in Virginia (Jun 13, 2009)
· High-speed rail: Biden praises Midwest plan to enhance passenger train system (Jun 12, 2009)
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