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Old Posted Nov 12, 2015, 7:27 AM
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Amtrak Cascades Higher Speed Rail Projects

Projects half completed (mostly ARRA requiring completion by 2017).
Project list and info; http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Rail/Projects.htm

Planning including previous plans for HSR from Vancouver, BC through Portland, Oregon; http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Rail/Plans.htm

The tourism video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEXGRTfc8g
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2016, 12:21 AM
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http://www.constructionequipmentguid...on-track/31524

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The improvements will automate 21 switches that conductors currently must throw by hand. Scattered along 2,000 ft. (609 m) of seven separate tracks, the new switches are part of a $38.5 million Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) project that includes installing new signals and adding a new platform. ...

“As you can imagine, that isn't a very efficient process,” said David Smelser, capital program manager for the rail, freight and port division of WSDOT. “The trains can be within sight of the station and it may take up to a half hour to actually get to the platform. When they leave, the same thing [happens] in reverse.” ...








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Old Posted Nov 30, 2016, 12:44 PM
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Thank you for posting these photos. Who'd have thought--if we invest in infrastructure, we'll create good American jobs.
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2018, 7:11 AM
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180303...-back-on-track


... Derailments in other parts of the country have compounded the challenges facing stateside rail service. Ridership on the Cascades route in December was down 23.7% compared to December 2016, said Hal Gard, administrator of the Oregon Department of Transportation rail division. January saw a decrease of 30%.

February looked a bit brighter. Ridership was down 10.8% compared to the year prior — but trains carried more passengers the first 13 days in February than the entire month of January. ...
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Old Posted May 8, 2018, 9:09 PM
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Seattle's New $28M Locomotive Facility

https://web.archive.org/web/20180508...up-steam/40277

They'll be able to work on two trains at once in the new facility.

"...Although the project is only 38 percent complete, construction is ahead of schedule. ... $28 million project... completion January 2019"
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Old Posted Nov 7, 2019, 8:44 PM
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Ridership is back up to pre-derailment trendline (i.e. slight growth); https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/defau...Report2018.pdf However on-time performance wallows at ~50% and compared to systems similar in 2010, like Hiawatha, Cascades is flat ridership/cost recovery-wise (rising slowly back to previous highs).

WSDOT was awarded a grant to replace the damaged and existing Talgo 6 trainsets (3 trains); "... The new train cars won't be ready until the mid-2020s, and state officials are working with Amtrak to find interim replacements. ..." Cascades does not run on the Point Defiance Bypass yet and is short the damaged train. Major harm done to the route by the derailment (and the victims).

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/wsd...ject/977713443
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Old Posted Nov 7, 2019, 8:47 PM
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In other news, I976 passed this week putting the (complementary to Cascades) Sounder extension to Dupont on the WSDOT-owned Point Defiance Bypass in jeopardy.

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... Roads and bridges would fall deeper into disrepair. Arteries connecting industries to the Port of Tacoma would stay clogged. Unfinished transit projects would disrupt communities.

Eyman’s overriding goal is to sabotage Sound Transit; in a speech to a Republican group, he once said he loved that $30 car tabs would “gut” the agency “like a pig.” But with I-976 he’s wielding a butcher knife so indiscriminately, he’d bleed transportation projects at every level.

Statewide, the transportation budget would incur a nearly $5 billion loss, affecting everything from the State Patrol to the ferry system to the long-awaited completion of state Route 167 to the Tacoma Tideflats.

In Pierce County, nearly a dozen communities — as large as Tacoma and as small as Carbonado — would lose their transportation benefit district funding. TBDs, duly approved by locally elected leaders, generate needed dollars for local traffic projects. ...

And then there’s Sound Transit, in the center of Eyman’s bullseye. Pierce County taxpayers have helped fund major Sound Transit infrastructure up north since the ‘90s, waiting our turn, stuck at the end of the line. Planning’s now on track to extend light rail to Tacoma by 2030, and Sounder commuter service to Tillicum and DuPont by 2036. ...
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opini...236367813.html


27% voter turnout. The mythical "inefficiencies" or "someone else will pay."
~11% of the annual state transportation budget.

People get what they vote for... All WSDOT projects postponed state-wide;
https://mynorthwest.com/1587556/gov-...cts-postponed/
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