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Tenth of a Series: NY Dangles Dollar Carrots

The MTA on April 26 announced that Central Business District Tolling, which the agency calls “the country’s first congestion pricing program,” will begin in Manhattan ‘s designated Congestion Relief Zone early on

Central Florida’s Sunshine Corridor Moves Forward (UPDATED, 4/29)

There is plenty of action on the passenger rail scene in Florida these days. Brightline started service on its northward and westward expansion to Orlando Airport on Sept. 22, 2023, and more

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Eclipse Special Runs into a Cloud

It seems that there were only two topics on everybody’s mind lately: the election and the eclipse that would occur on Monday, April 8. The latter would be the first solar eclipse

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Brightline, End to End

On Sept. 22, 2023, Brightline ran its first train from the railroad’s new station at Orlando International Airport (coded MCO) to its Miami Central Station. That run was accompanied by a capacity

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Ninth of a Series: Here Comes the Judge! What’s Next?

At this writing, there are court cases about congestion pricing pending in federal courts on both sides of the Hudson River, or as longtime New Jersey advocate Albert L. Papp calls it:

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Eighth of a Series: MTA Says ‘No Tolls, No Capex’

As we wait for Judge Leo Gordon to decide the case filed by the State of New Jersey in federal court in that state, and as we also wait for a group

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Seventh of a Series: The Empire State Strikes Back

In parts 4, 5 and 6 of this series, we examined a “border dispute” between New Jersey and New York. Gov. Phil Murphy of the Garden State initiated an action in federal

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Innovate or Die?

RAILWAY AGE APRIL 2024 ISSUE: “Long COVID” for America’s regional/commuter railroads is restricting post-pandemic progress speed.

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Sixth of a Series: A Ruling Later This Year

A lot happened last year in the court case concerning the proposal for congestion pricing, charging a toll for vehicles entering the Central Business District of Manhattan, defined as the area south

Lehigh Valley Officials Study Passenger Train Restoration

It has been more than four decades since a scheduled passenger train called at any point in the Lehigh Valley, in northeastern Pennsylvania. At one time the area hosted service to New

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