This is a Great Time to Build High Speed Rail
Every few weeks or so the Los Angeles Times publishes stories by Ralph Vartabedian which are highly speculative, thinly researched and critical of...
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High Speed Rail at Los Angeles Union Station by 2024, not 2029
In a surprise move at the Los Angeles Metro Board Meeting on October 22, 2015, an agenda item was voted on and approved...
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How My Train Was 90 Minutes Late, Yet I still Got Home On Time
Even the best plans can get derailed. I planned to catch a mid-afternoon train out of Oceanside on a recent Friday to see...
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What will the Passenger Trains of the Future be like?
There are major changes coming in the near future to transportation, and this will impact rail passenger service as well. All forms of...
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San Diego County Trains have connections
San Diego County has 3 intra-county rail passenger services. There is the Sprinter, a 22 mile DMU service between Oceanside and Escondido. There...
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How Metrolink can get more Passengers on their Trains
Metrolink ridership has been in a slump for several years. Efforts are being made to boost ridership with discounted tickets. Metrolink though needs...
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What does the National Transportation Safety Board know that we don’t?
Almost 8 months after the Metrolink accident at Oxnard this year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) asked Metrolink to stop using the...
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Some Future Rail Connections to LAX and West LA.
Since 1995 the closest (about 2 miles) LAX has been to rail service is the Green Line Station at Aviation Blvd and Imperial...
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Notes on last Monday’s LOSSAN Board Meeting in San Diego
I rarely have a chance to attend the meetings on rail service to keep up with what is happening. I hadn’t given any...
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