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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs... a subject triggering keen emotion and intense debate these days. Check out the very positive jobs forecast associated with a light rail effort in our region. Regardless, the STA Board (and some others) refused to accept this comprehensive analysis when they torpedoed the light rail steering committee's recommended high capacity transit alternative—light rail for the east-west corridor.
Guest Editorial in the S-R. InlandRail Board president KC Traver wrote a guest opinion that appeared in the March 27, 2010 Spokesman-Review RoundTable. We invite you to check it out. This is truly a must-read. His article is also available on our editorial page—click here.
Recommended InlandRail Editorials:
Recommended Outside Reading:
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NEW! Inlandrail's Email List. To more easily communicate with our friends, we have created our first interactive email list. Learn more about it on our email lists page—Join Now!
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs... a subject triggering keen emotion and intense debate these days. Check out the very positive jobs forecast associated with a light rail effort in our region. Regardless, the STA Board (and some others) refused to accept this comprehensive analysis when they torpedoed the light rail steering committee's recommended high capacity transit alternative—light rail for the east-west corridor.
Guest Editorial in the S-R. InlandRail Board president KC Traver wrote a guest opinion that appeared in the March 27, 2010 Spokesman-Review RoundTable. We invite you to check it out. This is truly a must-read. His article is also available on our editorial page—click here.
Recommended InlandRail Editorials:
• The Rest of The Story
• The Charlotte Success Story
• STA and AVISTA Wedding Makes For Strange Bedfellows
• A Quick Primer: Axle Loads And Street Deterioration
• $4 Million Annual Loss
• The Charlotte Success Story
• STA and AVISTA Wedding Makes For Strange Bedfellows
• A Quick Primer: Axle Loads And Street Deterioration
• $4 Million Annual Loss
Recommended Outside Reading:
• PublicTransport.about.com Public Transport site hosted and authored by Christopher MacKechnie. Great repository of transportation related information, both rail and bus.
• The Transport Politic: "The Silly Argument Over BRT and Rail"
• Light Rail or BRT? Documented discussions and public debates regarding the suitability of BRT versus LRT.
• The Transport Politic: "The Silly Argument Over BRT and Rail"
• Light Rail or BRT? Documented discussions and public debates regarding the suitability of BRT versus LRT.
• Rails to Real Estate A report produced by Center for Transit Oriented Development—analyzes three recently completed light rail projects for the quantity and quality of LRT-driven development.
InlandRail is a registered non-profit*, non-partisan citizens' group dedicated to
advocating for rail transit as part of a more balanced transportation network for the Eastern Washington and
Northern Idaho region, promoting sustainable growth, economic vitality, affordable citizen mobility, and
increased community character.
InlandRail believes:
- A truly robust regional transportation system is comprised of many elements: local transit/circulation/feeder service (bus/ streetcar/ vanpool/ others); sub-regional transit service (express bus/bus rapid transit); and regional transit service (light rail transit).
- Transit-oriented development is an economic development phenomenon numerous studies have shown to associate with fixed rail-based transit systems in a synergistic, beneficial manner related in some way to the predictability and "mystique" of rail travel.
- The ballot measures sponsored by Spokane Transit Authority (STA) in 2006 were very confusing. Notably, despite limited time for public outreach, the final vote was surprisingly close, each of the two measures failing by only a few percentage points. Nonetheless, STA views the vote as a mandate for no additional action at this time.
- Considering the severely time-constrained educational campaign preceding the 2006 vote, the unfavorable but extremely close voting margin belies a regional readiness to continue planning for a future light rail system.
*In order to preserve all advocacy options, InlandRail is purposely not registered as a
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