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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 04:15 PM

Next City 1/5/18:
 

5 Transportation Projects to Watch in 2018

 

 

There was plenty of good, bad, and weird news on the transportation beat in 2017.

 

Driverless cars began taking to the roadways in numbers. New Orleans launched a bike share system. An Amtrak train making its first run on a new line derailed near Olympia, Washington, killing three people. Elon Musk called public transit advocate Jarrett Walker an “idiot.”

 

But transit is all about moving forward. American cities are preparing to launch projects that could change the way people get around town and chip away at their dependence on private cars. Here are a few transportation projects to watch for in 2018.

 

Continue here.  (2 of the 5 named projects are rail.)

 

 



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Posted 24 January 2018 - 04:20 PM

Curbed, 1/18/18:

9 U.S. transportation projects to watch in 2018

From trolleys to high-speed trains, here’s what’s coming
 

2017 was a big year in transportation. Cities paved the way for electric vehicles, embraced alternative means of transit, and even launched autonomous buses. At the same time, we discovered that U.S. kids are dying from traffic fatalities unnecessarily, watched a major highway collapse, and learned more about why some cities are dangerous for pedestrians.

 

What do we have to look forward to in 2018? The debut of more large transportation projects across the United States. From streetcars to transit hubs, cities are doubling down on trying to solve their transportation woes with new or expanded systems. To see just how widespread the upgrades will be, we’ve rounded up the most important projects scheduled to go live this year.

 

It’s worth noting that a few of these projects actually made a similar list we published last year. As any city manager will tell you, construction delays can wreak havoc on project timelines, but hopefully this will be the year that long-awaited projects like Denver’s G Line and Charlotte’s Blue Line finally open.

 

Continue here.  (6 rail related listings, including a single listing for multiple streetcar projects.)






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