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  • As a side note, metrorail is already operating near capacity during peak hours.

    Matthew Yglesias » Congestion Tax for DC 2007

  • Even Los Angeles -- the capital of California's "car kingdom" -- wants to build an eighteen-to-twenty-mile "metrorail" subway system, at a cost of 53 billion.

    How Business is Reshaping America 1986

  • But billionaires could fund significant portions of smaller projects that are still crucial for jobs and growth: $800 million to repair a portion of the Boston-New York-Washington train corridor, or $100 million to speed construction of the Dulles metrorail project, which will link Dulles International Airport to downtown Washington, D.C. Smaller projects could be built for even less.

    How Billionaires Can Build Bridges to the Middle Class Charles Landow 2011

  • I-66 was designed to be a multi-modal corridor and a chief concern of mine in opposing widening has been preserving options for mass transit, either expansion of metrorail or dedicated BRT.

    More Pathetic Patrick Hope 2009

  • KwaZulu-Natal metrorail routes this holiday season.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • "The things that begin to treat people as ... shareholders of metrorail rather than just as sacks of potatoes are not really in place."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • In the medium term Government is considering a move towards the concessioning of the operation of metrorail services on state-owned rail infrastructure, on a competitive basis, by either public or private sector operators.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • District, the metrorail system "may come close to breaking even on an operating basis, but there is no way that it will pay for the construction of the system."

    How Business is Reshaping America 1986

  • Carlos Miller, who runs the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, and veteran photojournalist Stretch Leford decided to test the photography rules in Miami-Dade's metrorail system.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • D. C.'s metrorail is a testiment to strong, consistent funding backed up by sound decision making, planning, and connectivity.

    Baltiblogs Chris 2010

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