approximately 670 million more trips per year will be taken on mass transit. If perchance the price goes to an average of $5.00 per gallon, the total number of transit trips would rise to 11.6 billion annually. Ironically, the leader- ship in the U.S. House of Representatives is aiming to cut back on federal funds for transit by about 30 per cent. Thanks to Felix Paster- nak for the information. Early in 2011 the LOS ANGELES City
Council voted to spend $1 million on the en- vironmental and engineering phases of a proposed downtown streetcar. The money will come from Measure R, the half-cent per dollar sales tax that was given the nod by voters in 2008. An additional $6 million will be spent by the Community Redevelopment Agency to support the project. Thanks to Frank Bauer for the news. DART, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, be-
gan adding rush-hour train service in the spring of 2011 in expectation of a steady rise in patronage due to the increase in gasoline cost. In 2008, when the price of gas shot up, DART ridership rose by 15 per cent. Four more Red Line trains will be added in the morning and six more in the evening rush hour. Thanks to David F. Cosgrove for the news. The commuter rail service to MON-
TRÉAL from downtown to Rigaud was dropped in 2010 because the small town of Rigaud could no longer pay its share. It has been replaced with a twice-a-day bus service to Vaudreuil. It is not common these days to find news of service contraction in public transportation. Canada has every reason to be proud of its generally fine public trans- portation service. Thanks to Gerard Ther- rien for the information. You may have noticed that America’s transportation infrastructure is falling apart. In a recent tour of the tired facilities of the SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, Fed- eral Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter saw where it is possible to pull apart the rusted and corroded parts of the high-speed line bridge at Norristown. For the nation as a whole, FTA estimates that $78 billion is needed to restore transit to a state of good re- pair. About $4.5 billion of that sum is needed at SEPTA. In addition to the Norristown bridge, about $100 million is needed to bring the dank and leaky, crumbling, and down- right nasty subway concourse beneath City Hall up to snuff. Another $36 million is need- ed to restore the electrical substation at Jenkintown that serves three rail lines. Many of the facilities are just plain old and subject to normal deterioration. For exam- ple, four rail bridges on the Media-Elwyn commuter line were constructed before 1900. Thanks to John Spychalski for the sad news. All parties need to get on the same page in
the development of the proposed light rail line along Woodward Avenue in DETROIT. The city and the FTA have agreed on the fu- ture of the project, but the private investors appear to have been left out of the discus- sion, although they have pledged to put in $100 million of the $500 million needed. There is hope that the project will help De- troit to recover from many years of malaise. Thanks to Kenneth Borg for the information. Congratulations and best wishes to Alex Clifford, the new CEO of METRA, who was previously an executive with the Los Ange- les County Metropolitan Transportation Au-
thority. Metra has been in difficulty since the discoveries of financial hanky panky and the suicide of its former CEO. Thanks to Steve Scalzo for the news. Did you ever wonder what would happen
to the five historic South Shore Line cars in the care of the National Park Service? Now we know. The 1920s-vintage cars have been transferred to the EAST TROY ELEC- TRIC RAILROAD in Wisconsin. The Na- tional Park Service concluded that East Troy had the ability to operate and care for the venerable cars that were purchased as a part of Samuel Insull’s rebuilding of the South Shore Line after he bought it out of bankruptcy in 1925. Federal stimulus money has been helpful
in many cases. In Philadelphia SEPTA has taken advantage of the stimulus funds and the public will benefit over years to come from the trackage improvements, station rehabilitation, signal upgrades, and other worthwhile ef- forts. Pennsylvania Governor Rendell plead- ed with the legislature to take action to raise the money needed for infrastructure, and made $9 million available for the Ardmore Transit Center in the western suburbs. Thanks to David Harris for the information. August 2010 brought troubles to the NORTHEAST CORRIDOR. The aging power supply system caused electric trac- tion to halt for a time, delaying Amtrak trains as well as the electrified commuter services of New Jersey Transit and SEPTA. August 24 was the low point of service be- cause of voltage dips. The problem of worn- out infrastructure is evident all over the U.S. and it affects all modes of transporta- tion. Announcements of major maintenance and rebuilding efforts are starting to perk up. Metra, the commuter rail operator for the Illinois suburbs of Chicago, has begun to replace 22 century-old bridges on the Union Pacific (formerly Chicago & North Western) North line in a $185 million project. A new station at Fullerton will be constructed as part of the upgrade. As with many other transit projects, some of the money is com- ing from the federal stimulus program. Thanks to Charlie Bogart, Felix Pasternak, and Steve Scalzo for the news. The DALLAS AREA RAPID TRAN-
SIT’S Green line light rail operation will be- gin revenue service in early December 2010. This is Phase II of DART’s expansion plan and it will add 15 stations and 25 miles to the existing 48-mile light rail service. The new line will offer service to Dallas Love Field airport, the Dallas Market Center, six entertainment districts and six hospital cen- ters, the Asian trade district, and the towns of Farmers Branch and Carrollton. BOMBARDIER will build 100 more of
the double-decker commuter cars that New Jersey Transit has been investing in recently, at a price of $267 million. The builder has al- ready constructed 129 of the double-deckers for NJ Transit and the latest contract has an option for 79 more if NJT decides to exercise the option. Thanks to Carl Edd for the news. The draft environmental impact state-
ment for extension of the LOS ANGELES SUBWAY west under Wilshire Boulevard is disappointing to advocates of rail service in LA. According to the draft report, the new rail line will not cause a large diversion of traffic. The price tag of $4 to $9 billion also makes advocates unhappy. No telling how this will turn out. Thanks to Carl Edd and Frank Bauer for the news.
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