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Catching Up

I was on vacation and am still trying to recover from the work load that built up while I was gone.  There's quite a lot of news to comment on, which I will attempt to get to later in the week.  In the meantime, I'll point you to some of the most interesting news items and commentary that appeared while I was away:

The City of Roanoke announced that it will be offering trolley service between downtown and Roanoke Memorial Hospital by the end of the summer.  The rubbet-wheeled trolley (really, buses painted up as trolleys) will run every 10 minutes from 7 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday, and every 5 minutes from 10 am to 2 pm.  The trolley is a cooperative effort of the City, Carilion Clinic, and Jefferson College.

The state announced the location of the proposed intermodal site will be Elliston, prompting much discussion.

The always-interesting Bacon's Rebellion has a number of good pieces.  Norman Leahy's piece about the conjunction of conservative politics and transportation planning/funding deserves the most attention.  While I don't have time to comment in depth right now, I think its overly concerned with conservative philosophy and not sufficienty realistic concerning the problems our current transportation infrastructure and behavior poses, economically, environmentally, and in the realm of public health.

Check these pieces out and I'll discuss them in full later in the week.