Commuter rail

o Discuss your perspective on the information/advice shared in these two articles. Be sure to cite which article you refer to as you respond. In the article Making a Successful Transition from College to Career, I thought their first reality check point was spot on. When I transferred to DePaul, I became a commuter student. Therefore, I skillfully manipulated my schedule so that I would only have class twice a week. I was taking 5 classes, but I fit them in online and just Tuesday/Thursday, meaning I had a lot of free time. Even with a job, I was still able to sleep in and have a flexible schedule. Then, last quarter, I had to start taking classes every day. This meant that I had to take the commuter train at 7 am and at 5 pm Monday through Thursday. What a reality check. And still, I had Friday off to sleep in. Time-related factors of a job has been something that I have been mentally preparing for and I am glad…

Dallas was late to build a municipal rail transport system, yet today its DART light rail system is the largest in the United States at a total system length of 85 miles. Troubled by a rocky start, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority was faced with the stubborn reluctance of voters to spend any taxpayer money on public transportation infrastructure. However, once the wheels of development started in motion, there was no chance of them stopping. Over the course of 30 years, Dallas went from…

This past summer, NBCUniversal and Millennial Trains Project (MTP) awarded $25,000 to six innovative and civic-minded entrepreneurs through NBCU-MTP Open Possibilities Impact Grant. The Millennial Trains Project is a movement that leads young entrepreneurs, artists, and innovators on transcontinental train journeys where they work to address societal challenges by engaging in meaningful dialogue and drawing inspiration from cities and citizens across America. The NBCU-MTP Impact Grant helped…

Honolulu Rail Transit Project Hawaii’s biggest development has created a huge impact on commuters on the island of Oahu. Driving town bound from the Leeward side, people can’t help but notice the large cement pillars holding a railway high up above the farm lands in the Kunia area. Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann who won the 2004 election, announced that construction of a rail line is a priority. Now building the largest public works project in Hawaii’s history, the Honolulu Rail Transit…

Advantages of Transportation Transportation is the motion of people, animals or goods from one place to another. The modes of transport are air, rail, road, water, pipeline, cable and space. The field can be separated into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is significant because it allows trade between people, which is important for the growth of civilizations. Transport infrastructure is comprised of the fixed installations, which include roads, railways, airways,…

Passenger and freight cars equipped with on-board electric traction motors revolutionized transit rail system development. Electrical traction offered several benefits over the then predominant steam traction, particularly in respect of its quick acceleration and power. Power provided enough “oomph” for hills and mountains, while quick acceleration provided the answer for commuter services with multiple, close stops. Electrically powered trains moved polluting power sources away from…

must take a journey through time back to the early 1800s. The first steam locomotive was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick in Britain. Since then trains have drastically changed the world we live in. The first big event in the timeline of how trains affected the world is that they were a part of and helped make the industrial revolution what it was. For the first time, you could move relatively large amounts of goods without human or animal power. Flash forward 60 years and railroads were a…

by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current coverage area was once served by the…

The design of the Hurontario LRT involves 23 kilometers of new dedicated rapid transit from Port Credit Go Station in Mississauga to Gateway Terminal (Steeles Avenue) in Brampton (Infrastructure Ontario, n.d.). The project includes the construction of stations, shaft tunnel, tracks, overhead sign structures and related infrastructure facilities (Infrastructure Ontario, n.d.). There will be a total of 22 surface stops along the line that will serve, two urban growth centers, two Go Transit Rail…

residents of Virginia are using the drinkable water supplied by the 2830 public water systems. Many of these systems are over 70 years old, and 9% of the supplied water were reported having water quality violation. There were about $200 million awarded to Virginia for improving the infrastructures of public water systems. However, this fund is even less than 5% of the current need. Virginia has been ranked as one of the top states for freight carloads with more than 3200 miles of railroads…