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Interested in transit-oriented development, biking, public-private partnerships, parking management, car sharing, freight trains, smart growth, streetcars, corridor planning, new starts, or just about anything related to transit?  Power Point presentations from Rail~volution, one of the nation’s top transit conferences, are now available online.  Also, a number of reports were released at the 2006 Rail~Volution Conference and […]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported recently on Illinois’ recent investment in rail transit: "Earlier this year, the Illinois Legislature nearly doubled state funding for passenger rail service, to $24 million. The money allowed Amtrak to add two daily round trips to the previous three between St. Louis and Chicago, and to offer one additional daily

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported recently on Illinois’ recent investment in rail transit: "Earlier this year, the Illinois Legislature nearly doubled state funding for passenger rail service, to $24 million. The money allowed Amtrak to add two daily round trips to the previous three between St. Louis and Chicago, and to offer one additional daily

SEMCOG released cost and ridership estimates for the proposed Ann Arbor to Detroit rapid transit line last month and stated that none were competitive for federal funding. This may be in part because they estimated extremely deluxe service and in part because there are currently no ridership numbers to estimate from (a 50% increase from 0

Here’s a quick pitch of why you should support TRU financially: 1) Greater Detroit will never fully revitalize without quality regional transit. 2) To achieve quality transit, this region needs a full-time advocate dedicated to improving and expanding transit – TRU is that advocate. 3) TRU needs your financial support to do the research, education,