| | Light Rail Now! NewsLog - Light Rail Transit News |
 | | Transit opponents persistently try to denigrate the importance of public transport &; especially rail transit llines in urban areas by comparing the ridership of single lines to all the travel in a gigantic region, thus diluting the apparent impact of the transit service. |
 | | Apparently in an effort to throw a small political sop to political interests impacted by a total rail shutdown in the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the budget dollops a relatively tiny $360 million, to be allocated to the Surface Transportation Board ostensibly to continue commuter railway and freight operations within the NEC. |
 | | Light rail transit (LRT) plans have been floated for Dayton at least since the mid-1970s, when a modern interurban-type LRT system was evaluated for a railroad corridor as an alternative to a previously proposed busway. |
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