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'The stars have aligned': New plan revealed for passenger rail from Peoria to Chicago
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPEORIA — City leaders on Thursday announced the results of a feasibility study for a passenger rail line from Chicago to Peoria. The proposed project would bring passenger rail service to Peoria ...
MORPC, Columbus Partnership throw weight behind Amtrak expansion in Ohio
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and the Columbus Partnership are throwing their weight...
Buttigieg faces his ‘biggest test yet’ in Baltimore bridge collapse
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, Pete Buttigieg drew criticism for not...
Buttigieg finds himself in the spotlight for better or worse
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's transportation secretary usually holds one of the most public-facing...
Peoria City Council approves $100,000 for new passenger rail study
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCity Council took another step toward a long-term goal of adding passenger rail from Peoria to Chicago. The council voted to approve $100,000 that will allow the city to apply for federal funds ...
The Amtrak trip from St. Louis to Chicago just got faster, part of a $1.96 billion project
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 10 months ago“We really think that now we’ll really begin to penetrate that market in a meaningful way south of...
Faster trains to begin carrying passengers as Amtrak's monopoly falls
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 8 months agoORLANDO - Amtrak's decades-old monopoly on intercity passenger rail travel will fall in the coming...
Remote work is straining public transit — and many agencies are stuck
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK — Public transit systems at the heart of major American cities were built around the 9-to-5 — and that old business of shepherding workers to downtown offices turned into their greatest ...
Pete Buttigieg faces crisis and opportunity as airline cancellations mount
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAir travel stinks right now, creating just the kind of crisis that a politically adept and ambitious...
Cool. Now do transit for people who live here.
Nevada Current via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoPolicy, politics and progressive commentary Both of the state’s U.S. Senators, three-fourths of Nevada’s delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives,...