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Well i like Denver , LA , Seattle and St Louis plans , nothing can beat the Northeast and are Regional / Urban Restoration / Expansion plans.
Philly Regional Rail restorations - 2040 plan all Electrified
Urban Philly 2030 Restoration and Expansion plans
Baltimore 2040 plan
DC-Baltimore Dream map - note that 80% of this is planned
DC & the DC suburbs - 2030 plan
Boston 2030 plan
Lackawanna Cutoff 2016
New Haven & Stamford Streetcars 2014-2020
Providence Streetcar network 2025
Future Staten Island Light Rail - 2030
South Jersey Transit plans -2020
Bergen - Passaic Light Rail - 2020 , the freight is now planned LRT
Connecticut Statewide plan 2030
Expanded Transit in Southeast Queens? 2030?
Proposed Brooklyn Streetcar network 2040
Virgina Statewide Rail plan 2030
Northeastern Intercity Network 2040?
2025-2040 completion
Future Light Rail Projects
Washington DC Boston Northern NJ New Brunswick,NJ Baltimore Pittsburgh Philly Binghamton Syracuse Rochester Hartford Lehigh Valley Wyoming Valley Buffalo Urban Jersey Springfield,MA
Future Streetcar systems
Providence Stamford New Haven Boston Worcester Baltimore Harrisburg Reading,PA Lancaster Manchester,NH Portland,ME Washington DC Springfield,MA White Plains Bridgeport Norwalk Fall River
Future Heavy Rail system expansions
New York DC NJ Gold Coast Philly Boston Northern Virgina
Future Commuter Rail system expansions / restorations
Massachusetts Connecticut New Jersey Harrisburg Metro Northern Virgina Providence / Fall River area Restored lines in the Hudson River Valley
Future Bus Rapid Transit lines or systems
Hartford Boston Newark Lehigh Valley Albany Metro Baltimore DC Philly NYC White Plains
Future Intercity Amtrak lines
Boston-Montreal HSL 130-150mph Empire Corridor 110-140mph Keystone Corridor Extension to Pittsburgh / Cleveland 110-160mph Lehigh Corridor 90-130mph Lackawanna Corridor 90-120mph New Haven - Springfield Corridor 90-120mph NYC-Montreal Corridor 120-200mph I-83 Baltimore - Harrisburg Corridor 90-120mph Downstate Delaware Corridor 80-110mph Upgraded Northeast Corridor averages 170+ with tops of 190mph
Hmmmm , yea like i said nothing can beat the Northeast
I think that LA Beats everything , but NYC and Philly...........in 9 years.....
The amtrack Cascades is using high speed french talgo trains that go 120mph already . They just can reach top speeds now because they need track improvments and grade seperation throug cities. Wich is being done now with the stimulus money . They say the line should be fully runnin in a couple of years at top speed. Washington started building there rail line ten years ago so they have a head start . They even have the tilting trains already and you can ride on them. Soon it will be faster to take the train to portland rather than a plain or drive.
LA high speed trains will reach the speed of 220 miles per hour....
High speed rail is already being constructed between Portland and Vancouver?? I had not heard that. I thought California's HSR was the furthest along, and it is not under construction yet.
Chi - StL has already begun improvements. Thank you stimulus monies.
Montgomery County plans to build their own BRT system that will be by far the largest in the country. The study was just finished and ridership for the entire 148.3 mile system is projected to be between 213,100-266,400 daily riders.
Here are the plans:
-150 stations
-16 lines
-peak headway's will be as frequent as every 2-3 minutes on the busiest corridors
-148.3 system total miles
-two-way guideway only 24 miles
-one-way guideway only 48 miles (rush hour direction)
-guideway and bus lane 27 miles
-bus lane (both direction) 1 mile
-bus lane (one direction) 7 miles
-no guideway or bus lanes 44 miles
-26 Queue Jump Intersections
-TSP 176 intersections
-367 platform stations at 150 sites (median and curb)
-209 Concrete pads
-430 total bus fleet
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Montgomery County plans to build their own BRT system that will be by far the largest in the country. The study was just finished and ridership for the entire 148.3 mile system is projected to be between 213,100-266,400 daily riders.
Here are the plans:
-150 stations
-16 lines
-peak headway's will be as frequent as every 2-3 minutes on the busiest corridors
-148.3 system total miles
-two-way guideway only 24 miles
-one-way guideway only 48 miles (rush hour direction)
-guideway and bus lane 27 miles
-bus lane (both direction) 1 mile
-bus lane (one direction) 7 miles
-no guideway or bus lanes 44 miles
-26 Queue Jump Intersections
-TSP 176 intersections
-367 platform stations at 150 sites (median and curb)
-209 Concrete pads
-430 total bus fleet
Love the map, but that is pretty outdated. Several of the routes for 2015 have been cancelled by local governments. It would have been cool though.
To my knowledge, only three have been axed, Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida. Am I missing any others?
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