Posts tagged Marc
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Mayland will invest in MARC Brunswick Line tracks
On Thursday, the Maryland Transit Administration informed MARC riders of its plans to spend $18.5 million to add three rail crossovers to the CSX tracks the Brunswick Line runs on. These interlockings will increase track capacity by enabling CSX train dispatchers to weave faster trains around slower trains. And it will improve reliability by allowing operating… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go and stop on HSR
90 minutes to Richmond; No HSR for Palo Alto; Columbia for transit; Safe bike parking at school; What is the “area” for affordable housing?; Zoning marathon in PG; Potomac Yard neighbors protest taxes; Fight graffiti with art; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Questions in Alexandria
Should Alexandria spend on regional transportation?; Alexandria to wait and see on more bike signals; Not so much Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Good luck organizing a block party; Amtrak signals possibly sabotaged; How to balance the budget; Transit indirectly brings cars?; A bike section in the paper?. Keep reading…
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MTA and CSX explain lousy MARC Brunswick performance
According to the Maryland Transit Administration’s MARC train daily service digest, on-time performance for the Brunswick Line for October 1-21 was 56%. For the first daily afternoon train, it was 36%. The delays were typically substantial: for example, trains were 7, 11, 20, 22, and 31 minutes late on the morning of October 4; 33, 53, 47, 15, 9, 33, and 34 minutes… Keep reading…
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MARC shares more information including on-time issues
Since the middle of July, the Maryland Transit Administration has posted a MARC train daily service digest. The site shows each day’s delayed trains (by train number), as well as a short explanation of the reason for the delay. For trains during the afternoon peak, the website also shows whether or not the train arrived at its final destination on time, and… Keep reading…
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New Jersey says no to FTA money. What would you build?
It was reported yesterday that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, is expected to kill the ARC Tunnel project. The tunnel would double rail capacity under the Hudson River, and would allow more trains to enter Manhattan each day. Christie, it seems, plans to take the state’s share of the project and devote it to building roads. This means that New Jersey will… Keep reading…
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O’Malley, Ehrlich differ greatly on transportation
In today’s must-read, Michael Dresser takes a look at how the Maryland gubernatorial candidates differ on transportation issues. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Buses off, buses on
PG bus drivers on strike; Buses back in service; Metro takes bids on U Street; No more “Highway to Nowhere”; New community center in Shaw; Promoting mixed-income TOD; Not so rapid transit. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving earth
Politically in PG; And…; Did you feel it?; The line on Purple; An urban Wal-Mart?; Obama vs. sprawl; Oregon to bag the bags?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Map to the secret
Amtrak as a subway; The secret’s out; “Sweeperscam”? “Robo-snitch”?; Norton news; Use creativity, not ART; Still off the MARC; “Increasingly difficult” to keep up; And…. Keep reading…