Arizona Transit
- "West Valley
ponders commuter rail" -- Arizona Republic02 August 2002. QUOTE:
"Freeway congestion has some West Valley leaders mulling a commuter rail
project between downtown Phoenix and the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.
Organizers want to use existing Union Pacific railroad tracks that run parallel
to Interstate 10 rather than build a light rail system."
- "Light
rail to affect 583 sites in Valley" -- Arizona Republic, 08 January
2002. QUOTES: "Planners have identified 583 properties that will be impacted by
the light rail system proposed for the Valley.... "
- "Light
rail stop puts ASU on defense" -- Arizona Republic, 05 January 2002.
QUOTES: "Arizona State University is worried that a Tempe light rail stop may
interfere with future plans for research facilities in the area... "
- "2
light rail stops reinstated" -- Arizona Republic, 04 January 2002.
QUOTES: "Responding to an outcry from residents and business leaders, a Phoenix
citizens commission on Thursday reinstated two key train stops marked for... "
- "Valley's
light rail design unveiled" -- Arizona Republic, 04 January 2002.
QUOTES: "The design for a sleek, modern ''people's'' train, inspired by
thousands of suggestions from Valley residents, was unveiled Thursday..."
- "Officials
unveil design of light-rail train for Valley" -- Arizona Republic,
03 January 2002. QUOTES: "If it can be done, the first trains in the Valley's
light-rail system will be aerodynamically sleek, with racks for bicycles and
easy accessibility for..."
- "Planners
unveil tentative design of train for light rail system" -- Arizona
Republic, 03 January 2002. QUOTES: "Planners unveiled the tentative design
of a sleek, modern train for the Phoenix metro area's planned light rail system
Thursday...."
Related:
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Amtrak: Advocates Respond
Amtrak in Arizona: Related
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Amtrak / Nation
- "Proposed
long-distance cuts would spell end to national rail system" Arizona
Republic 5 February 2002, by Laurence Arnold, QUOTES: "Amtrak
officials have compiled a tentative list of 18 long-distance routes that could
be cut this fall unless the government drastically increases the money it
spends on passenger rail. Among them: the Sunset Limited, which passes
through Tucson on its way to Orlando, Fla., from Los Angeles; the Southwest
Chief between Chicago and Los Angeles... The scaled-back passenger train
network would consist primarily of several lines in the Northeast, the Auto
Train between Virginia and Florida, connections between Chicago and other
Midwest cities, and a number of routes inside California."
- "Amtrak
Threatens Route Cuts, Trims Jobs" -- Arizona Republic 2 February
2002, by Christopher Doering. QUOTE: "Amtrak threatened on Friday to
discontinue money losing long-distance service as it announced job cuts under a
$285 million austerity plan that still leaves it short of a requirement to end
federal operating subsidies by the end of the year."
- "Private
Companies Could Take Over Amtrak Routes" -- Arizona Republic, 14
December 2001, by Christopher Doering. QUOTES: "Amtrak, the money-losing
national railroad, could have its routes divided among regional operators as
part of a broad plan to restructure the passenger operator, the board that
oversee its finances said on Friday."
Weekly Columns:
Related:
- The Amtrak Reform Council has issued its second annual report,
available online.
- "A Plan
To Reorganize Amtrak" from the United Rail Passenger Alliance; by Andrew C.
Selden, October 2000.
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