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Mountain View - Castro Street Closure | Mountain View, CA - EconDev - planning on establishing a pedestrian mall between Evelyn St. and California St. Evelyn St. is just south of the Mountain View Caltrain station, and establishing a pedestrian mall there will fit in well with closing Castro St. ac...

In updating my earlier list of grade crossings in this thread, I found Grade seps: Burlingame Broadway revamped with elevated design; Mountain View progress – Green Caltrain - 2022 March From 5. Broadway Burlingame Grade Separation Project_0.pdf they are now expecting to start construction in 2024 a...

I decided to make a map of all the grade crossings between downtown SF and Tamien. I used Google My Maps to make it, and while a lot of grade separation has been done, it continues to be patchy. My Map (link) Red = grade separation in service Yellow-green = grade separation planned Blue = neither st...

The site https://www.amodernli.com/ appears to be dead. It says "Error establishing a database connection" But some of it, at least, is still at the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine LIRR Expansion Project is still active, but its home page states IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The LIRR Expansion ...

That's a good diagram. It shows how sparse Amtrak's service outside of a few areas. One could improve on it by painting on it markers that indicate how populous each place is. Does anyone want to do that? I'm thinking of doing so myself. Doing so would show how sparse Amtrak service is, because ther...

I looked up the metro-area populations in Wikipedia: Burlington: 215k Montpelier: 8k - 39 mi ESE of Burl St. Albans: 7k - 29 mi N of Burl These towns are so small that it's hard to justify commuter rail. They are not even collinear, meaning a separate route for each. Existing bus service: Green Moun...

Five of CityNerd's picks are city pairs on the Northeast Corridor, and it's a given that a big US HSR push will include the NEC, like new tunnels under the Hudson River and downtown Baltimore. Of the others, Miami-Orlando will open soon, though it will be a moderate-speed line by HSR standards, LA-L...

CityNerd's picks: NYC - DC - 22.6m, 9.8m, 230 mi NYC - Boston - 22.6m, 8.3m, 215 mi NYC - Philadelphia - 22.6m, 7.2m, 95 mi DC - Philadelphia - 9.8m, 7.2m, 150 mi Houston - Dallas - 7.3m, 8.1m, 240 mi Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - 18.7m, 9.7m, 380 mi Los Angeles - Las Vegas - 18.7m, 2.3m, 2...

I would start with City Nerd’s Top 10 10 City Pairs. Top 10 Places to Build High Speed Rail In the U.S. - YouTube His gravity model : P1*P2/D^2 -- where P1, P2 = city populations, D = distance Except that I'd treat the denominator as a function to be estimated, and I'd consider P1+P2 along with P1*...

So to answer your direct question where to spend the money first, (1) NEC upgrades, 2) Texas Central, (3) Brightline West. I am against giving CHSR any more Federal funding until they commit to building LA to SF in one 5 year plan. What makes LA to SF rank so high is LA and SF. Without them this pr...

The first segment is now open, and the system has been renamed Skyline. Watch history made: Skyline rail opens to the public | KHON2 Its Wikipedia article - Skyline (Honolulu) - Wikipedia - has its updated name. It is now open between Kualaka‘i East Kapolei and Hālawa Aloha Stadium. The next phase i...

Checking on Foothill Gold Line I found a Foothill Gold Line Track Completion Ceremony scheduled for Saturday June 24, today as I write this.

So that bit of construction will be done.

Los Angeles Metro Rail - Wikipedia -- has a big list of projects in various stages of construction, planning, and proposal. Under construction: The LAX Automated People Mover and the remaining bit of the K-Pink line, from Westchester/Veterans to Aviation/LAX on the C-Green line (to open 2024) The D...

Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation delivers Segment 1 of the Rail System to City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services - Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation "The initial operating segment consists of 10.75 miles of rail guideway and nine rail stations ...

The Los Angeles Metrorail Regional Connector is now in service, including its three Downtown-LA stations: Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill, Historic Broadway, Little Tokyo/Arts District​. The light-rail L-Gold line ran San Gabriel Valley - East LA, but it is no more. In its place: A-Blue Long Beach - SGV E...