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Osage River Rail Bridge will ease freight bottleneck, roadway congestion

Posted Monday April 9 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Relieving chokepoints and improving our transportation infrastructure for the future must be a national priority.

By 2050, the US will be home to 100 million more Americans–Americans who will all need to go to school, work, the doctor, and the grocery store.  Americans who will put an even greater strain on our highways, byways, and railways, slowing our ability to move the goods that drive our national economy.

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Post Link: http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/03/osage-river-rail-bridge-eases-congested-bottleneck.html

See what Grand Rapids’ new Amtrak station will look like

Posted Thursday March 29 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Work is expected to begin in May on the new, $3.8 million Amtrak station slated to be built near The Rapid’s Central Station.

The station — which will be named for former West Michigan congressman Vern Ehlers — will be situated just south of Central Station and the Wealthy Street overpass.

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Post Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/03/work_on_new_grand_rapids_amtra.html

Michigan Transportation Odyssey: Bikes on local Amtrak trains? It’s a definite maybe

Posted Monday March 26 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Amtrak Chairman Thomas Carper says the passenger rail service is considering a request to allow passengers to roll bikes onto Michigan trains.

Amtrak service in other parts of the country, particularly on the east and west coasts, allow riders to roll bicycles onto passenger cars outfitted to stow bikes. Michigan’s rail lines, which also do not allow passengers to check baggage, are not equipped to allow bikes in passenger cars.

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Post Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/03/michigan_transportation_odysse_6.html

Amtrak’s Hiawatha Service sets new annual ridership record in 2011

Monthly ridership records broken 11 times last year
Posted Monday January 30 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

For the first time in its history, Hiawatha Service ridership surpassed 800,000 in 2011. The year-end numbers put ridership at 823,163. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), that is a nearly four percent increase from 2010 when ridership totaled 792,848.

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Post Link: http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/opencms/export/nr/modules/news/news_3137.html_786229440.html

Hiawatha Line Serves Record Ridership

Posted Monday January 30 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Amtrak’s Hiawatha Service, which runs between Milwaukee and Chicago, reached a new annual ridership level in 2011. More than 820,000 riders used the service, making the route the busiest Amtrak corridor in the Midwest.
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Post Link: http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=9803

The wrong question about Amtrak’s profitability

Posted Friday January 20 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

EARLIER this month, the New York Times‘s “Freakonomics” blog asked a panel of expertswhether Amtrak, America’s government-run passenger rail company, could “ever be profitable”. The answers ranged from the supportive (Amtrak’s problems are many, but they’re not all the company’s own fault) to the critical (it’s time to start breaking up the beast). One astute respondent, journalist Nate Berg, noted that the company had already answered Freakonomics’s question: “Amtrak will never be profitable,” David Gunn, Amtrak’s president, told a Senate committee in 2002.

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Post Link: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/01/amtrak

Official: $87M grant for I.C. train on track

Posted Friday January 20 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Iowa is no danger of losing an $87 million federal grant targeted for establishing Amtrak passenger railroad service between Iowa City and Chicago, the state’s top transit official told Iowa lawmakers Wednesday.

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Post Link: http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20120119/NEWS01/301190024/Official-87M-grant-C-train-track?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Iowa DOT director: No danger of losing $87 million federal grant for Iowa City train

Posted Friday January 20 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Iowa is no danger of losing an $87 million federal grant targeted for establishing Amtrak passenger railroad service between Iowa City and Chicago, a state official told Iowa lawmakers Wednesday.

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Post Link: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/01/18/iowa-dot-no-danger-of-losing-87-million-federal-grant-for-iowa-city-train/

Illinois kicks off state rail plan development with new website

Posted Thursday January 19 2012 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has launched a new website to inform stakeholders and the public on development of the state’s new rail plan.

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Post Link: http://www.progressiverailroading.com/class_is/news/Illinois-kicks-off-state-rail-plan-development-with-new-website–29559

Why trains are important (even for car guys)

Posted Friday December 16 2011 by in News Articles - Miscellaneous

Because companies locate to communities with good quality of life, and trains — a way out of the gridlock — are a big part of that.

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Post Link: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/why-trains-are-important-even-for-car-guys

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