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Transit Advocates: Tonight! Meet & Greet, 6pm @ Depot At Santa Ana
Submitted by Steven on 24 February, 2010 - 5:04am
Tonight's the night! Doors open 5:30pm; we'll start the meeting at 6pm. Light refreshments will be served. Attached is the agenda, and here are some more details:
Santa Ana Depot (train station), 5th floor. Please attend; We'd love to meet you! You'll hear the latest on the bus funding situation, the bus cuts situation, and what can be done to help save our bus service. You can let us know your concerns and questions. Refreshments will be provided at no charge. Please let us know ASAP if you can volunteer as a greeter or translator.
To arrive by transit: OCTA 59, 62, 83, 206, 462, 463, 464, Metrolink, Amtrak
ARTIC: Anaheim's proposed station's public scoping meeting this Wed, Feb 24
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OCTA Weekly Update: Meetings meetings meetings, Metrolink track closures, and reduced Metrolink service
actually, not a whole lot to note except for Metrolink track closure dates (listed below) and the upcoming ARTIC meeting, which I'll post about in just a few minutes... read more→
OCTA Weekly Update: Irvine-Corona Expressway tunnel, train grade separations, HSR funds
Submitted by Steven on 7 February, 2010 - 10:18am
OCTA's weekly update was posted a few days ago. Just a few highlights I've found interesting with my opinion in italics:
- California Awarded $2.34 Billion In High-Speed Rail Funding.
- San Clemente Considers Wayside Horn System at Rail Crossings: could this be another "transit" project to benefit homeowners in the area?
- Orangethorpe Rail Corridor near Placentia and Anaheim to grade-separate 5 different crossings: could this be another "transit" project to benefit motorists in the area?
- OCTA's still throwing a few million dollars away in studies to evaluate building a several-billion-dollar freeway/tollway tunnel beneath the mountains separating Corona and Irvine. I'll post more about this later.
- OCTA will likely cut deeper into bus service in September. More about this later.
The Weekly Update follows: read more→
California to receive $2.35 billion stimulus for rail and High-Speed Rail
Submitted by Steven on 27 January, 2010 - 10:48pm
Obama is set to announce tomorrow a whopping $2.35 billion in federal funds dedicated to improving intercity transit infrastructure in California. Here's what California's getting, according to Robert Cruickshank's comprehensive California High Speed Rail Blog: read more→
San Diego-Los Angeles "express" trains?
I noticed there's some OCTA talk about making Metrolink-Amtrak-Coaster train services easier to use for first-time riders. They recently did focus group studies on how they could improve service along the LOSSAN corridor. In a memo on August 14, 2008 with the subject "Los Angeles-San Diego Rail Corridor Service Integration Focus Group Findings," OCTA notes that: read more→
