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Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train
Author: MSB
Date: 05-29-2008 - 21:15

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Snohomish County has signed onto a plan for commuter rail service between Snohomish and Bellevue.
Tom Payne and his company, GNP Railway, hope to spend as much as $150 million to $200 million to rehabilitate railroad tracks, build five stations and a 12-foot-wide trail and buy engines and passenger cars.

Payne hopes that by 2013, six morning trains and six evening trains will be running at half-hour intervals and carrying 10,000 riders a day. The trains would use tracks now owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

By comparison, Sound Transit currently has 9,300 riders on commuter trains linking Seattle with Tacoma and Everett.

Peter Camp, the county's executive director and an adviser to County Executive Aaron Reardon, says the county is not putting any money into the deal.


$200 million? Heck, Sound Transit would spend that much on a study to see whether they should study the idea... Then about $500 million more on studies and designs and...

Heck, they just announced they finished the light rail line in Seattle, but it's going to take ANOTHER YEAR before they open it to the public! What's up with that?

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  Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train MSB 05-29-2008 - 21:15
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Captain Underpants 05-29-2008 - 21:42
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Jacques Strop 05-29-2008 - 21:58
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train pactrail 05-30-2008 - 00:21
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Enquirer 05-30-2008 - 08:53
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Pactrail 05-30-2008 - 09:22
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Enquirer 05-30-2008 - 09:30
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Pactrail 05-30-2008 - 11:21
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Enquirer 05-30-2008 - 14:23
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train almo 05-30-2008 - 23:16
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train AC 05-30-2008 - 11:34
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train MSB 05-30-2008 - 14:32
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train AC 05-30-2008 - 22:23
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train hill 05-31-2008 - 07:12
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Ed B 06-02-2008 - 15:15
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train MSB 06-02-2008 - 15:17
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train George Andrews 06-02-2008 - 18:56
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train pactrail 06-02-2008 - 19:45
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train AC 06-03-2008 - 12:45
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train MSB 06-03-2008 - 13:23
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Truth 06-03-2008 - 19:22
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train What is truth? 06-04-2008 - 07:28
  Re: Snohomish to Bellevue commuter train Henry Miller 06-05-2008 - 00:09


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