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California Corridors May statistics
Provided by Gene Skoropowski, Managing Director, Capitol Corridor JPA. We just received the May 2007 ridership results, and while California in total is ‘looking good’, the Capitol Corridor is skyrocketing! I am still in awe of where we are in riders. Gene ________________________________________________________________ Summary of May 2007 ridership and ticket revenue results for California state-supported…
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High Speed Rail Authority Adopts Phase 1: Anaheim to “the Bay Area”
Meeting Report and Commentary, May 23, 2007 By Russ Jackson, RailPAC The California High Speed Rail Authority, with four RailPAC members in attendance, met at the State Capitol on Wednesday, May 23, to adopt a definitive “Phase 1” of its project, “taking into consideration the cost, ridership, and revenue data presented to the Board on…
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Message to RailPAC Members
from Paul Dyson, RailPAC President Dear RailPAC members and supporters: After the enthusiastic response to our March 17 meeting in Los Angeles, the Board of Directors met in April to discuss the next steps for RailPAC. We have come a long way. We now publish a monthly Newsletter, the Review, with articles and news of…
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BULLETIN: Caltrans request for new cars is BACK IN THE BUDGET!
Reported by Marcia Johnston, RailPAC Director Some news from the State budget analyst: “The May CA State Budget Revision, released today, also proposes to spend $187 million in 2007-08 from Proposition 1B transportation bonds approved by the voters in Nov. 2006 for the purchase of intercity rail cars and locomotives.” Heavy lobbying by the Capitol…
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San Joaquin Valley Rail Committee TAC sees mockup of new Cafe cars (Revised)
Reported by Bruce Jenkins, RailPAC Director NOTE: Since the original publication of this report new information has been made available to this writer about the mockup of the new Cafe cars. This new info follows, then the original report is repeated. – BJ From Stanton Hunter, Rail Passenger Car Technology Branch, Caltrans Division of Rail…
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April results for the 3 California corridor trains
Reported by Gene Skoropowski, Managing Director, Capitol Corridor JPA We received the April 2007 results for ridership and revenue. While California ridership remains strong overall, the Capitol Corridor is going through the roof. Once again, a new record has been set. We will have to re-adjust the scale on our monthly “How’s Business” reports, since…
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New Schedule for the California Zephyr
A report from RailPAC Associate Director/InterMountainRail John Dornoff in Salt Lake City To be effective June 13! From the looks of it, most of the change is west of Salt Lake City. Train 5 will depart Salt Lake City 20 minutes earlier at 11:35PM. Depart Reno 12:03pm Depart Sacramento 5:50PM Arrive Emeryville 7:50PM Train 6…
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RailPAC Alert: Capitol Corridor responds to highway collapse
from Executive Director Richard Silver This Update is from Capitol Corridor Director Gene Skoropowski via our friends from the Capitol Corridor Riders Groups. Please spread the word. I have added my own notes below about extra ferry service, and BART service. Gene reports: Just in case you missed it, a gasoline tanker truck lost control,…
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Transportation Agency for Monterey County rail meeting report
April 2, 2007, reported by RailPAC Associate Director Chris Flescher. A significant part of the meeting was on possible BRT lines in the area. There was a Monterey Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) study performed, for Monterey Salinas Transit (MST) and SCRTD (the equivalent agency for Santa Cruz County). The study was started in Jan…
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March CA Corridor statistics!
By Gene Skoropowski Managing Director, CCJPA We have just received the March 2007 results, and for the Capitol Corridor it is yet another record high in both ridership and revenue, even with our still-lackluster 73% on-time performance (but that is getting better as well, April to date is 80%). Implementation of the Union Pacific’s test…