#silverline — Public Fediverse posts
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A new track for Kerala? The Railway Board has asked K-Rail to explore a Broad-Gauge semi-high-speed corridor similar to Gujarat’s upcoming Sarkhej-Dholera line. With SilverLine in limbo, could this 160-220 km/h Broad-Gauge model be the solution for the state's transport woes? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/railway-board-asks-krail-to-explore-gujarat-style-broad-gauge-semi-high-speed-corridor-for-kerala-medn9kni?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaRailways #SilverLine #SemiHighSpeedRail #KRail #IndianRailways
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Despite criticism from ministers over Sreedharan’s project and his opening of offices to promote it, the government has decided that if central approval is granted, the plan will not be dismissed. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-regional-rapid-transit-silver-line-approval-nduqjc64?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RailwayNetwork #SilverLine #RRTS #ESreedharan #KeralaNews
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Railway Ministry says Kerala wants SilverLine as a standalone semi-high-speed rail project despite advice to integrate it with the national network and revise DPR to meet technical and environmental norms. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-silverline-standalone-project-railway-ministry-row-cvoc18c0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SilverLine #KRail #Kerala #AshwiniVaishnaw #IndianRailways
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Kerala government greenlights the first phase of the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) as SilverLine alternative. Construction of the first phase from Thiruvananthapuram to Thrissur is expected to begin in 2027. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-rrts-replaces-silverline-transit-plan-mf2c1c4p?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kerala #RRTS #SilverLine #TravancoreLine #HighSpeedRail
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Kerala’s SilverLine land acquisition notice is cancelled. Yellow boundary markers no longer restrict farming or construction, as the government moves towards the new RRTS rail project. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-cancels-silverline-land-acquisition-yellow-markers-no-longer-a-concern-for-residents-ud0c8yr8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SilverLine #KeralaRail #LandAcquisition #RRTS #KeralaNews
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The move reflects a renewed effort to secure central support for a fast, efficient rail network. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-govt-unveils-100-crore-allocation-for-rapid-rail-corridor-in-2026-27-budget-check-full-plan-u5u95flk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RRTS #HighSpeedRail #Kerala #SilverLine #Train
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Kerala`s new 583 km RRTS high-speed rail project from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod is approved! Discover speeds up to 180 km/h, elevated tracks, metro links & more. Click to learn details! https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-rrts-high-speed-rail-ktfhn8qr?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RRTS #HighSpeedRail #Kerala #SilverLine #Train
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DART celebrates Silver Line opening with concert, free rides, more 🚋 🛬
New light rail line will connect seven cities with DFW International Airport, “marking a new era of transit” in the region, officials say
🆓🔗: https://archive.ph/NbolV
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2025/09/13/grand-opening-of-dart-silver-line-in-north-texas-set-for-late-october/#ZachariaReports #DFW #Dallas #Rail #Transit #DART #SilverLine #Texas #Plano #Richardson #Carrollton #Addison #Grapevine #Coppell #Collin #Tarrant #MassTransit #DFWAirport
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Silver Lining: New DART rail line revs up North Texas transit, tourism ahead of World Cup 🚋
#DART #SilverLine #Dallas #DFW #FortWorth #Texas #MassTransit #Rail #Metro #RapidTransit
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Nachdem wir kurz auf dem #Hausboot waren, lockte der #Portumna_Forest_Park, der direkt am Hafen anfängt zu einem kleinen #Waldspaziergang. Der #Park ist eigentlich ein gut 600 Hektar großes #Waldgebiet am #Lough_Derg - schön zum Wandern, auf markierten #Wanderwegen mit #Seeblick
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#irish
#Ireland
#Shannon
#Hausboot
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Hier am kleinen Hafen von #Ballinasloe gibt es für #Bootsreisende wieder so ein #Dusch_und_Sanitärgebäude, dass man mit einer #Chipkarte (gegen Entgelt) nutzen kann. Hier ist sogar ein #Laundry also ein #SB_Waschsalon dabei. Na dann: #Waschtag...
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Unsere heutige Etappe mit dem #Hausboot ging von #Athlone erstmal wieder nach #Shannonbridge, wo wir kurz anlegten um ein paar Kleinigkeiten zu besorgen und, auf der anderen Seite des #Shannon, eine alte #Trutzburg gegen #Napoleon, in der heute ein #Cafe, ein #Touri_Shop und ein #Museum ist, anzusehen.
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Ten years ago today, the car-clogged, concrete sprawl of Tysons Corner became less distant from my walkable, leafy corner of Arlington when Metro finally opened the first phase of its Silver Line extension.
July 26, 2014 was a day long awaited. It had taken years of political maneuvering to get this project past obstruction and outright opposition from windshield-perspective politicians in Washington, Richmond and even Northern Virginia, followed by years of seeing the mostly-elevated segment inch through Tysons and beyond as construction delays pushed its planned opening from 2013 into 2014.
After all of that, boarding the first revenue-service westbound train on that Saturday–still one of the nerdier things I’ve done, which I realize is saying a lot–and then enjoying the view gliding above traffic felt like an epic win.
Knowing that I could take the train to the occasional work or social event in Tysons instead of taking my chances with traffic on I-66 and routes 7 or 123 represented an immediate upgrade to my NoVa logistics.
It took me a little longer to realize how having Metro get within seven miles of Dulles Airport would ease getting to and from IAD. And then I had to wait another eight years, vastly more than I would have imagined before the pandemic and even on our way out of it, to see the Silver Line reach Dulles itself.
I enjoyed that one-seat transit ride to Dulles yet again Thursday morning, which also gave me time to contemplate how that view from above Tysons has changed and how it hasn’t. While the McLean stop has undergone a remarkable level of urbanization that now features the tallest building in Northern Virginia, the Tysons station has seen less of a transformation–and the view to the south of Greensboro and Spring Hill has barely budged in that decade.
Meanwhile, walking outside the immediate vicinity of those stops can be as miserable as ever.
The scenery looked considerably better near the Wiehle-Reston East and Reston Town Center stations, where transit-oriented development has taken off without having so much of each neighborhood already chopped up by six- or eight-line roads.
My perspective on the Silver Line has also changed after seeing so many other transit megaprojects in the U.S. fly off their budgetary rails–for example, the Purple Line in Maryland, which has reached the tracks-on-the-ground stage of construction after billions of dollars in overruns and remains at least three years from opening. After all the angst over financing Metro’s farthest-reaching extension into the suburbs, we got this done at a per-mile cost cheaper than almost every other new transit project in the U.S. and even some overseas.
We should take a little pride in this public work… especially when talking to New Yorkers whose far more extensive subway system still doesn’t touch any of their airports.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/26/happy-10th-birthday-silver-line/
#DullesMetro #IAD #Metro #MetroToDulles #SilverLine #transitOrientedDevelopment #TysonsCornerEl #WMATA
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Massholes, Rhodey riffraff keeping cops, tow drivers busy on Temple Place downtown
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Link: DART beginnt mit dem Testen der Silver Line-Züge, die auf den lokalen Strecken erstmals in Betrieb genommen werden. Die Testläufe finden sonntags statt und werden in Segmente aufgeteilt, um sicherzustellen, dass die Züge und Systeme ordnungsgemäß funktionieren. Die Silver Line-Züge werden voraussichtlich zwischen Ende 2025 und Anfang 2026 in den kommerziellen Betrieb gehen. #DART #SilverLine #Testläufe #aigenerated #mobility http://dlvr.it/T6YQfL
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Great video on birth of the Silver Line, struggles and all #wmata #silverline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdByhKpEKfU
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@corgidad the word 'just' does a lot of work in that sentence... Recommend slogging through the 2 hour (they ramble and banter, and the first 5 minutes you can skip) amusing podcast from #WellTheresYourProblem on The Silver Line if you want to get really spicy, and dig into why we have the #SilverLine that we do. https://youtu.be/1pUQnb9BgCk?t=207
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Getting my first silver line experience..... Ashburn Station isn't exactly a hopping place lol.
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@anuckols I started in Arlington, biked to the East Falls Church station, biked directly to every Silver Line Extension station, then my bike on the Metro to get back. Here’s the route I used (it’s rotated to fit; north is to the right) #BikeTooter #SilverLine #WMATA
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6/6 Final Silver Line stations
-I found bike-friendly access to Dulles Airport Station (after surviving Old Ox Rd's 45 mph traffic gauntlet): cut thru Garage 1, use elevators
-Loudoun Gateway Station: parking garage, station, nothing more
-Ashburn station means I made it!
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5/6 My Silver Line bike adventure headed into Phase 2 stations
-Herndon Station, upgraded from a bus park & ride
-seems so recent that there was barely anything here
-Innovation Center, surrounded by new housing & offices
-this is a paved sidepath, well, under all of the debris
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4/6 Moving on to Silver Line Phase 2 stations (opened in 2022)
-strange multi-sided tv displays outside Wiehle-Reston East
-stopping to have a Brunch Burger at Big Buns
-Reston Town Center surprisingly does not connect well to nearby major trail @WODTrail
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3/6 More Silver Line adventure pics
-The scale of this mural at the Boro by (Instagram: jessieandkatey) is what gets me
-Spring Hill station, contained within Route 7 (Leesburg Pike)
-gorgeous day on @WODTrail
-end of Phase 1 stations (opened in 2014), Wiehle-Reston East
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2/6 My Silver Line adventure took me into Tysons
-Tysons station: in the middle of shiny skyscrapers popping up everywhere
-Greensboro station has some nice murals nearby, but it is sandwiched between like 1,000 lanes (slight hyperbole) of noisy & speeding traffic (truth)
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1/6 Time for a bike + transit adventure in Virginia thread! I biked to every station on @WMATA's Silver Line Extension now that all of them are open #bikeVA
-started at East Falls Church (where Orange/Silver split)
-seen along @WODTrail
-1st of the Phase 1 stations: McLean
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2/2 Dulles Airport station on the Silver Line was easy to access, happy I can now use it when I visit
-waiting for the train
-architecture info
-my chariot awaits
-nice interior
After transferring to a bus & then walking, it was cool to see kids bike/walk/rolling to the local school in my childhood neighborhood
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Quite the ratio
