It’s official! Ohio will get $400 Million for HSR. Here’s the post from the USDOT’s blog, including a map of the projects around the nation receiving funds. January 28, 2010 President Obama delivers on American High-Speed Rail I have looked forward to this day for a long time. It is a great honor–a great honor–to [...]
Archive for January, 2010
3C Corridor Gets $400 Million Stimulus Grant
Posted in Rail X-ing on January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Rumor: Ohio to Get $400 Million for 3C Corridor
Posted in Rail X-ing on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This would be really great news. Hopefully we’ll get confirmation tomorrow. Ohio getting $400 million in federal rail money Obama will announce grants Thursday in Florida Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:25 PM Updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 05:51 PM By Jonathan Riskind and James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio’s long-planned passenger rail corridor is about [...]
Poll Finds 3C Rail Lacking Majority Support
Posted in Rail X-ing on January 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Poll: Voters reluctant to invest in rail By Howard Wilkinson • hwilkinson@enquirer.com • January 25, 2010 The bad news for proponents of a passenger rail line that would link Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland is that a new Cincinnati Enquirer/Ohio Newspaper Poll shows a majority of Ohio voters don’t support spending state dollars to run the [...]
COTA Says Articulated Buses Not Necessary
Posted in Bus X-ing on January 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
About a year ago, we reported (based on a report from WOSU) that COTA was planning to purchase six articulated buses. A Columbus Underground user recently asked, “What ever happened to those?” I e-mailed COTA to ask and received the following response: COTA has discussed the possibility of purchasing articulated buses in the future but at [...]
Invisible Parking
Posted in Auto X-ing on January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Tom Vanderbilt had an interesting post yesterday on his How We Drive blog about how the perception of parking availability may differ from the actual parking available to drivers: ‘Parking Availability Bias’ …I was thinking back to Donald Shoup’s reply to a question I had posed to him, which itself was related to Brian Pijanowski’s [...]
MORPC Releases Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Data
Posted in Bicycle X-ing, Pedestrian X-ing on January 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I considered calling this post, “Lies, damn lies, and statistics,” in reference to the following headline the Dispatch ran on Saturday. Worst corridors to bike, walk MORPC compiles list from 5 years of data on auto crashes with cyclists, pedestrians Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:12 AM By Jennifer Smith Richards THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Bikers and [...]
Port Columbus to Recieve Body Scanners
Posted in Airplane X-ing on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Going through the airport is about to become a lot like a second date with Superman. The TSA has x-ray vision. I recommend that you start exercising. Body scanners expected soon at Port Columbus Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:15 AM By Marla Matzer Rose THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH If you plan to fly from Port Columbus [...]
US-23 Warning Signs Permanently Removed
Posted in Auto X-ing on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I always liked those signs and thought they were very useful, but perhaps ODOT is right and Delaware County has outgrown them. On a practical note, you should drive more slowly on US-23 to avoid getting caught in what traffic engineers call a dilemma zone. A dilemma zone can occur when the yellow light isn’t [...]
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