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  1. @light
    > You mean this place?

    That's the one. Thanks for the link to the article on the Greater Auckland site, which linked to this fantastic proposal for a rapid passenger rail service between Tamaki Makaurau, Waikato and Tauranga;

    greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08

    In these days of oil wars and spiking fossil fuel prices, this proposal from 2017 looks even more prescient than it did at the time.

    #PassengerRail #FastTrains #GoldenTriangle #PublicTransport #railways #trains

    @chris

  2. "Grand Total for Auckland-Hamilton-Tauranga: $3,693,000,000 or the price of around 2.5 Roads of National Significance from National

    Note: Caution with the costs as some of the benefits of it spill over into freight as well by allowing more and faster freight trains on those two respective lines. So any track or tunnel upgrades need to bear this in mind as well..."

    #BenRoss, 2024

    voakl.net/2024/01/30/enter-jap

    #Aotearoa #NZ #PassengerRail #FastTrains

    @DrMcStrange

  3. @DrMcStrange
    An addendum to our discussion about the prognosis for fast trains in Aotearoa, Ben Ross has a fascinating proposal for rolling out electric-run 160km/hr passenger rail between Tamaki Makaurau, Kiririkroa, and Tauranga;

    voakl.net/2024/01/30/enter-jap

    #PassengerRail #FastTrains #HighSpeedRail

  4. AAWA News, December 2023: Increased Amtrak Cascades Service Begins, View Videos of AAWA’s Winter Gathering, 2024 Legislative Agenda, Planning for Station Improvements, 2024 Meeting Schedule, Remembering Jim and Zack on the Anniversary of the Dupont Accident aawa.us/news/posts/aawa-news-d #PassengerRail #WashingtonState #RailSummit23 #GreaterNW #CentraliaWA @aanw @summit

  5. AAWA News, November 2023: All Aboard Washington Calls on Public Agencies to Implement Delayed Amtrak Cascades Service Increases, Register Now for Winter Gathering aawa.us/news/posts/aawa-news-n #WashingtonState #PassengerRail #Rail #AmtrakCascades #Amtrak #GreaterNW #SoundTransit #CentraliaWA @aanw @summit