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Wakey wakey Wall Street Journal - the real money's in roads (a regular memo)
Posted Thu, 2008-02-14 07:12NEWS DESK: Guys, Rupert'll go bananas if you don't get with it - the story on real money, roads money, not rail.
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VA House speaker Howell denounces Dulles Rail as wasteful, useless
Posted Wed, 2007-12-05 13:14
Virginia House speaker William Howell says the Dulles Rail project proposed for the median of the Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway is an "incredible waste of money" and may actually worsen traffic conditions in northern Virginia by encouraging higher density development. Future ownership of the Dulles Toll Road is at stake in the controversy over the $5 billion rail project.
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Chicago should eject inefficient rail from expressway medians for toll express lanes
Posted Sun, 2007-06-03 08:37
Timothy W Martin secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation 2003-2007, now a senior VP of CTE/Aecom said at a conference recently that Chicago doesn't need toll express lanes because it has something better - passenger rail lines in expressway medians. They carry far more people than the same space devoted to highway lanes, he claimed.
This is nonsense, but it's commonly held nonsense. An urban myth.
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