Notes for folks: China is seeking their own manifest destiny with trains. (Reuters) ~~~ China's Urban property is going up in price . (...

Is a new business model emerging for merchants and park n ride lots? ~~~ A drive thru in Portland apologizes after an employee refuses ser...

Chris Leinberger tells us that "value capture" is the term of the next year. Though I wish he would dig a bit deeper. ~~~ Izmir ...

China is having the same issue with urban growth that we have with VMT. It seems as if they are growing so fast that it negates their sust...

It looks like Shanghai has long term plans for it's metro system. ~~~ Developers are looking at TOD around HSR stops in California. “I...

Karlsruhe, notorious for their introduction of tram trains, is looking at nickel cadmium batteries for short segments of the line where the...

Check out this really cool/not cool video of the swaying Manhattan Bridge. Kind of freaky when you think about how many full bends it took...

Overhead Wire correspondent @nspicer (who doesn't know he has been conscripted until now) is in Beijing and took a few shots of the sub...

Here's a few tidbits from the last few days. I'm sorry for the outage but I was in Denver for CNU. The next few weeks should be a...

Imagine if we were building 46 urban rail lines right now. We'd be China . "China has risen to be the world's largest urban r...

When China stimulates, it's with trains . Where did that trillion dollars go for our stimulus? By the end of the first quarter 2009, th...

Line 4 phase II gets the go .

Leroy Demery who often posts with Mr. Setty at PublicTransit.us has loaded photos from 1983 when Chinese Trams still operated. Fascinatin...

I haven't had a lot of time to write, but wanted to share with you all what has come through the ole reader. ~~~ Arnold wants to waive C...

For energy . And for development patterns . How do you stop a moving freight train with your bare hands?

Wow lots going on in the world. We have updates from China, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. Lagos is one of the world's densest cities. The...

Update: I should note that this is $445 Billion Australian or $272 Billion. That is still a lot of money. Reuters is reporting that with ...

What is the amount of money China spent on rail infrastructure Alex. Not just that, but in a 4 year period!!!!!!

This isn't minor planning : According to statistics, China plans to build 65 urban rail lines with a total length of 1,700 km through p...

Wonder how much this cost them. Brian in the comments links to the webpage for this new line. Tons of pictures there like this one...