planning studies were occurring in San Diego. This led to San Diego successfully negotiating with Southern Pacific to purchase the damaged rail line for $18.1 million in 1978. The agreement was to preserve both rail freight services to the Imperial Valley and any designated available right-of-way for future transit use. Construction of the San Diego Trolley started incrementally. The initial construction of track focused mainly in the downtown San Diego area. To control costs, MTS ordered 14 trolley cars and service started at 15-minute zones using the rehabilitated railroad lines. The San Diego Trolley, as we know it, opened in 1981 with 13.5 miles of rail lines on the then South Line leading towards the Mexican border. Currently, the system …show more content…
It operates between Old Town in San Diego and the City of Santee. Meeting future transportation demands, SANDAG is currently in the process of planning a Mid-Coast extension of the San Diego Trolley from the Old Town Transit Center to the University City community serving major activity and employment centers such as the UC San Diego campus and University Towne Centre (UTC) shopping center. This is part of the "Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project" and it is planned on being completed by 2015. B. Impact of Light-Rail Transit in San Diego San Diego MTS has encouraged private real estate development at or near trolley stations, but it has not initiated any joint development agreements, such as leasing arrangements or creating benefit assessment areas. Instead, MTS has designated land for new stations to capitalize on either the private sector already investing or preparing feasibility studies about the possibility of investing in that area. Two joint development projects have occurred along the San Diego Trolley lines, both commercial projects and are both downtown. Each project has been based upon a slightly different …show more content…
The joint development strategy has mainly focused on station location and orientation, and has not for the most part played a role in incorporating residential or office development on a large scale. The joint development agreements are rather simple and do not fully charge the developer for benefits accrued from such developments located in close proximity to transit stations. However, MTS passed a new Joint Use and Development Policy in June 1997 establishing a process for initiating joint development projects on MTS property. Although this policy may allow joint development to be done more extensively throughout the system, but there have been no new joint development projects initiated thus
The Act of 1862 called for construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. So on January 8, 1863, with a ground breaking ceremony in Sacramento, Central Pacific Railroad started work on the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad.
The branch was originally intended to carry the route south and connect to San Diego and the rest of southern California. But after the Southern Pacific was acquired by the "Big Four", who founded the Central Pacific, not only did the Southern Pacific reach southern California, it also stretched out to the southeastern United States. In 1883 the Southern Pacific had provided a connection between Southern California and the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. The western end of the "Sunset Route" began on December 31, 1869 in the newly built city of Lathrop, California. It continued south through the valley which was easy building for the Southern Pacific. Rail traffic crept all the way to what is now East Bakersfield by 1874; November 8, 1874 to be exact. Trains reached Modesto on November 8, 1870. In 1872 the rails passed through Merced, Fresno, and Tulare by the end of the year. During the eastern expansion of the Southern Pacific, there was yet another gold spike ceremony when the railroad reached Tucson, Arizona in 1880. In the following year of 1881, the Southern Pacific Railroad joined the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, better known as the Santa Fe, in Deming, New Mexico to complete the second transcontinental railroad. A few years later, in 1885, the Southern Pacific railroad leased all track and equipment from the Central Pacific, although the official merge
“Under terms of the Pacific Railroad Act, the Union Pacific was authorized to build a line westward from Omaha, Nebraska, to the California - Nevada line, where it was to connect with the Central Pacific Railroad”(Union Pacific Railroad 1). The Union Pacific hired former Civil War soldiers and thousands of European immigrants to work on the railroad.
Not any surveys stood up, except survey done by Theodore Judah. Judah, a civil engineer who helped build the first railroad in California suggested a route along the 41st parallel, running through Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. The obstacle that he faces in his proposed route was the Sierra Nevada mountains. A rail line built along this route would require tunneling through granite mountains. The project came to a halt until a solution was founded. In 1859, Judah received a letter from Denial Strong. The route shown by Strong had had a gradual rise and required the line to cross the summit of only one mountain rather than two. Judah agreeing to Strongs route, they both created the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Judah started to seek for investors and convinced Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker; and Leland Stanford. These investors were later known as “The Big
However, the plans are not cohesive and may not give the Puget Sound the return on their huge investment. Both Houston and Washington D.C. have a few ideas that Seattle could benefit from. In Seattle, most of the Sounder trains are on a separate infrastructure than roads. With the looming expansion though, the Eastside will be getting light rail in addition the south end on some roads. Houston implemented their relatively small, but efficient light rail system in 2002 after 30 years of debates and votes. The system provides unique lights to allow light rail to meander through city centre without causing major disruptions to their routes and traffic congestion. With the NP component of light rail in play, commute times have dropped for almost every route. It is the most involved light rail system in the US. Light rail is the best stimulant for transit-oriented development. It integrates the suburbs and other surrounding communities with the urban core the best. It provides a much cleaner alternative which increases public health. Most effectively built rail systems can generate up to 400% more ridership. The initial might be steep, but the ‘Move Seattle’ campaign should focus on light rail as much as buses. The nation’s capital is now bargaining with developers to contribute toward the building of new transit centres. It will take more than just upfront costs, but monies to maintain the system. Metro has faced serious technical issues which prohibits efficiency and ultimately contributed to their first ever system wide refund not so long ago. It will always cost money, but the city should not allow developers to accommodate more cars because of their high density
However, regional sectionalism prevented a bill from being passed, since there was much disagreement about whether the railroad would pass through the North or South. However, the proposal was still viewed as an important issue. The ideal path was determined in 1860 to be through the treacherous Donner Pass in Northern California. By 1861, a young engineer named Theodore Judah, the discoverer of said path, had recruited a number of Sacramento investors to fund the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Later, a bill providing for the transcontinental railroad was signed in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln. Said bill divided the building of the transcontinental railroad between the aforementioned Central Pacific and the recently formed Union
In 1903, the Pacific Electric Railroad line was built as public transportation to connect Las Angeles to all of the new cities and countries developing at the time. Los Angeles’ success drained natural resources by this time, the turn of the century, and the need for water was important as it always has been. Water was simply running low and a solution had to be assembled; this problem was solved by the making of an aqueduct in 1913. The plans for the replenishment were to use this aqueduct to bring water from the Owen’s Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which is over 230 miles away. This was great for booming business and residents, and agribusiness, groups of industries dealing with agricultural produce and services, made it at this time. Las Angeles turned out to be the largest agricultural producer in America. Las Angeles, California has had a steady growth in population from this point in history to current
The two companies operated under one board of directors, and were, in effect, one company. When the line through the San Joaquin Valley was completed in 1872, the Central Pacific sent out flyers telling farmers that they would be able to buy the land from the railroad. The flyers named no particular price, but they implied that the land would be made available for just a little over the $2.50 per acre that the government charged for the even-numbered parcels. Farmers came, even though the land was dry and not good for farming, and they erected irrigation methods that made it more usable. In addition, they built houses and barns. The railroad circulars indicated that the price of the land would not be raised because of improvements that the farmers
In today's day and age, an increasing urgency must be put on the issue of transportation and its relation to society. Man owes it to himself to address the issue of transportation with practicality and, as one of the biggest polluters, ultimate discretion. One of the most practical and responsible forms of transportation available today is mass transit. However, a problem is present in American society in that mass transit is not as plentiful as it should be. Societies' across the globe are embracing mass transit much more quickly than Americans are. This problem can be remedied through proper education of the benefits of mass transit. Mass transit is the ideal future of travel for several reasons. Of note: “mass transit costs less to the community, needs less urban space, is less energy-intensive, pollutes less, is the safest mode, improves accessibility to jobs, and offers mobility for all” (1). Mass transit is also a highly flexible mode of transportation, with many different methods of travel available. Of note for these: metros, buses, carpooling, light rail, and waterborne transports. Proponents of mass transit claim it will find solutions to problems concerning the economy, the environment, and the energy crisis, as well as improving overall quality of life (2). Each of these ideas will be examined more in-depth.
millions of commuters to commute from one place to another in fast pace. Investments in
The subway started its initial run at that time, under the auspices of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), traveling nine miles through 28 stations in Manhattan. Even though Boston built their subway seven years earlier that New York City, NYC has the largest American rapid transit system in The U.S.A. At that day approximately 100,000 New Yorker tried the submerged railroad which was only in Manhattan, starting from south of the borough in City Hall heading north until Harlem station. The ticket costed a five cent coin. However, a year later the expanding reached the Bronx to have better connection outside the island. Three years later, IRT opened their lines in Brooklyn and toke another seven years to run their trains in Queens. Unfortunately, they never connected the subway lines to the fifth borough, but Staten Island has its own subway system since it is an island and it is hard and expensive to construct long tunnels underwater. In 1968, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) had the charge of running the system until today. The system has more than 25 lines scattered in the four boroughs with about 470 stations. The engineers studied the infrastructure of NYC to locate ewers, gas pipes, water mains, electric conduits, and other subsurface structures accurately to avoid any kind of accidents. They used the classic cut and
Although the magnitude of the earthquake has been redetermined through different approaches, with the magnitude range from 7.7 to 8.3, it is no doubt that the San Francisco earthquake is a catastrophe. What’s more, the total length of 1906 rupture seen at the surface is 296 miles, the offset observed at the surface was 20 feet, the shaking has lasted 45 to 60 seconds, the ground has moved at a speed of 3 miles per hour approximately. The San Francisco earthquake is truly a big one, and from these data, we could still imagine the misery scene of offset fence and the train fell
The interview relates to information presented in the course in the context of the Macro level, organizations and communities. The macro level incorporates planning, implementation, evaluation, termination and follow-up (Kirst-Ashman, & Hull, 2015). There can be numerous tasks associated with making changes to large systems that require cohesive efforts of multiple groups (Kirst-Ashman, & Hull, 2013). In Tiernan’s project the Macro level is evident in working with multiple groups, consisting of her co-workers, city council members, and community developers. The goal was obtained in getting the San Ysidro sidewalk and park projects
It all began in 1870 after the transcontinental railroad, Los Angeles experienced a 350 percent increase in
Most people take the urban public transportation system for granted. It is used in every aspect of our daily lives: work, education, medical necessities, recreation, etc. It is also important for the transportation of goods and services, which aids the growth and maintenance of our economy. Urban public transportation is the critical component of our quality of life and economic stability. The MBTA, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is Boston and Eastern Massachusetts’s major transportation service. The MBTA has played a central role in the development of Boston and surrounding cities and towns for more than a century; providing service from 175 cities and towns into Boston. On an average weekday over 1.2 million trips are made on the subway, buses, commuter lines and other services in the mass transit system. With an international airport, a ship port, the highways, and the rail lines to connect regional cities and towns to national and international destinations and markets, Boston’s urban public transportation system has made the region’s growing role in the global economy possible.