Those of you who ride the MetroRail regularly might be interested in reports today of two near collisions caused when trains were running on the wrong tracks. Both happened earlier this month, six days apart; the good news is that no passengers were in danger. More or less.
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An interesting note on Metro's proposed downtown intermodal terminal: Yesterday, the transit authority's board apparently voted to buy land on which the terminal will sit, but Metro officials are refusing to tell anyone exactly where the land is.
If you've been paying attention to the MetroRail line, you may have noticed that not only are the trains picking off drivers one at a time, but the line may be self-destructing thanks to electrical leaks. That's been a problem for some time, but it doesn't look like Metro is any closer to a resolution.
The more things change, the more they stay the same and then almost change again. In his "Move It!" column, the Chron's Rad Sallee looks at a failed 1983 plan for a southwestern rail transit line, nothing that the Metro of 20 years ago ruled out street-level light rail as a transit mode and Richmond Avenue as a route because of "severe traffic disruption on major cross streets and ... relatively low speed." It's theoretically...
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