The Washington Subway Crash - Stephen Rees's blog

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This week s events in Washington were shocking and are also very hard to understand.To put the apalling death toll in the subway train crash into perspective here is the death rate by mode in the US, courtesy of Todd LittmanThe Washington subway would be included as heavy rail Washington has a computer controlled train control system and it now appears that this failed.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed that train control systems failed during investigative tests bein...

aggregated: 38 weeks 2 days ago | 87 views

topics: federal-government, skytrain, transit, transportation

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Ignatieff and Harper continue coalition government

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The Great Coalition lives. Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper have concluded their private little meetings and agreed to continue their Coalition government thus avoiding a summer election.Apparently the Liberals will once again, for the 72nd time,...

aggregated: 39 weeks 4 days ago | 44 views

topics: election, liberals

Toronto's plea for streetcar funds rejected

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Globe and MailNew design for Toronto StreetcarThere is a federal stimulus program available for city infrastructure programs. It was designed for shovel ready projects that would be ready to go straight way and could be spent in a couple of years. ...

aggregated: 39 weeks 2 days ago | 42 views

topics: climate-change, design, election, federal-government, political

Robin Mathews: Blood on the Walls of Courtroom 43 today

aggregated from: Legislature Raids

.Today it happened. We've waited to see how - to see what the game plan would be. Increasingly, it's become clear the Gordon Campbell forces are cornered. What - we have wanted to know - will the snarl of the beast look like. Today we found out....T...

aggregated: 38 weeks 6 days ago | 48 views

topics: attorney-general, bc-rail, liberals, political, premier

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