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Metro and FTA disagree about cost of Light Rail
This, from the River Oaks Examiner, is pretty interesting…
Letters to the Metropolitan Transit Authority from the Federal Transit Administration place the baseline price of building both the North and Southeast light rail lines at almost $1.58 billion.
Based on the correspondence, dated Aug. 17, that would place the cost of the 11.84 miles of construction at [...]
Runoff Election Candidate Meet and Greet this Thursday
For those who are interested in the upcoming runoff election, there’s a great opportunity to meet many of the candidates who are running this Thursday night. CNU-Houston is leading a group of five community organizations in hosting the event, which is both a networking opportunity for locals and a chance to meet a group of [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m a day early, but I wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving holiday!
I’m enjoying a short hiatus from writing, as it’s given me some time to catch up on life and save up a few worthwhile ideas for future blog posts. I’ve enjoyed the series on High-Speed Rail, and the many comments I received. [...]
The Mini Triangle
Today we’re going to wrap up our look at a hypothetical Texas-High Speed Rail system. We’ve already looked at the how a privately operated high-speed system could start as a regional rail service in the major cities, now we’re going to see how these regional lines can interconnect and form a more complete system.
The North Texas Corridor
Today let’s take a look at how High-Speed Rail service could connect to North Texas. The Dallas/Fort Worth area is one of the more interesting places to consider rail deployment, because they’ve got by far the most existing rail service. How can a new regional rail line lay the foundation for future statewide high-speed service?
The Capital Corridor
Today let’s look at the next branch of the Texas High-Speed Rail main lines: the Capital Corridor. This connection, running from San Antonio to Austin, offers one of the best opportunities for regional rail as a precursor to a state-wide high-speed system.
The Brazos Corridor
Continuing our look at High-Speed Rail in Texas, today we’re getting to the fun part: intercity travel. As you recall in the long series of previous posts, for the sake of this series I’m imagining a privately owned and operated rail system. As a private enterprise, the rail system would need to start small, building [...]
Ares 1-X Launch Successful!
Check out this very cool video of NASA’s successful launch of the new Ares 1-X rocket. This is intended as the replacement system for the Space Shuttle. Congratulations to NASA today!
Houston – Part 3
To finish laying the framework for inter-city rail, we need a regional corridor that serves Northwest Houston. Today we’ll take a look at the Northwest Corridor, and see what it looks like when we tie this in to the rest of the system.
Hair Balls!
Yours truly was featured in an entertaining blog post from John Nova Lomax at the Houston Press. Lomax wrote about “Dress for the Weather Week,” an idea that I’ve been kicking around with my friends and coworkers for some time…
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