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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on May 20th, 2008 at 9:41 am
- Seniors in Long Beach attempt the Transit Oriented Lifestyle, but elements of the car-culture like wide roads and quick traffic signals make it difficult.
- A look at potential changes to 1st and Alameda courtesy of the Downtown Regional Connector.
- The true gas holiday - this summer it’s estimated that summer travel by public transit will increase by 35%.
- Rail transit transparency: Amtrak shares on-time performance data with customers.
Discussion
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It’s pretty clear that Amtrak’s performance data isn’t meant to help the consumer so much as it is to take the blame off of Amtrak and put it on its host railroads. That’s not something I disagree with by the way.
Here’s one such example:
“96.2% on CN - IC (Former GTW and IC)
3.8% on Amtrak”
I guarantee that if it was the other way around, 96.2% on Amtrak, they would not be publishing this data. But it is good to see Amtrak defend itself. Perhaps something good will come of this.
agreed, spokker. i take the train cross-country once a year and union pacific, csx and conrail are notorious for making amtrak trains hours late. bnsf is usually pretty good though. no one riding amtrak has any idea that if they aren’t riding on the northeast corridor that amtrak is at the mercy of whichever railroad owns the tracks.