Let's get on board this train Nov 22, 2009
"A frequent 90-mile-per-hour service is more useful than an infrequent 200-mile-an-hour service.'' It's little known but Pennsylvania has two great railroad systems already. Between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, passenger trains are fast, frequent and generally filled, with 14 daily round trips reaching speeds up to 110 mph. West of Harrisburg, freight travel is dense. Freight rail has never been busier, Posner said, not even during World War II or the robber-baron era. It's the passenger service... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Horizon Air adds San Jose-Spokane service Nov 19, 2009
The new service also includes a second daily round trip between San Jose and Sacramento, facilitating same-day business trips in each direction between the two cities. Connecting Silicon Valley and our beautiful new airport with Horizon s expanding network will benefit the people in all our communities, said Bill Sherry, director of aviation. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Freight trains show path for people, too Nov 8, 2009
5 million in a dedicated passenger track between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and ridership now warrants 14 fast daily round trips. Meantime, here in Pittsburgh, there is one daily train east to Philadelphia and New York, and one daily train west to Cleveland and Chicago. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Lambert airport director named Oct 28, 2009
As the managing director of Dallas-based American s St. Louis operation, Hamm-Niebruegge oversees 104 daily round trip operations and a $60 million budget. Prior to the airline s recent cutback of local service, she oversaw 210 daily round trips and a $100 million budget. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Airport Check-in: Southwest will serve Panama City, Fla. Oct 26, 2009
The discount carrier plans to start non-stop service in May 2010 to the following cities: Nashville (two daily round trips) Raleigh/Durham (one), New Orleans (one), Los Angeles (two), Seattle (one) and San Diego (one). It'll also introduce two daily round-trip flights to Minneapolis-St. (USA Today -- Money)
Expanded rail service to NYC endorsed Oct 20, 2009
Amtrak currently operates one daily round trip on the Pennsylvanian, which extends from Pittsburgh to New York City via Harrisburg ... That effort cut travel times by 90 minutes and boosted ridership enough to support 14 daily round trips. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Southwest to add RDU flight Oct 14, 2009
Southwest (NYSE: LUV) plans to add one additional flight between RDU and Orlando, which will then give the carrier four daily round trips between the locations. After adding the flight, Southwest will have 30 daily departures at RDU.. (Triangle Business Journal)
John Madill / H-P staff A high-speed Amtrak train zooms through downtown Three Oaks last week. Oct 6, 2009
But in the long term, completing the state's first high-speed rail line would be a powerful economic development tool, allowing a gradual increase of daily round trips on the Wolverine from the current three to 10. "When you get that level of frequency, then people can take and use the train to get to their destination when they want to," he said. (St. Joseph Herald-Pallidium, MI)
49 favorite Arizona getaways Oct 6, 2009
The daily round trip (two hours, 15 minutes each way) is preceded by a Wild West shootout to get you in the mood. Pulled by a vintage diesel, the train arrives at the Canyon at around noon, allowing guests more than three hours to explore the natural wonder. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Southwest to halt 3 daily DIA round trips for 2 months Sep 5, 2009
Denver-Las Vegas: Reduced from nine daily round trips to eight. Denver-Seattle: Reduced from three daily round trips to two ... Denver-San Francisco: Reduced from four daily round trips to three. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
A bus ride won't make kids smarter Aug 11, 2009
The money for their daily round trip will come from the state, which presumably will divert it from teaching children elsewhere. This outcome can only be described as bizarre. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Jobs in recovery Aug 2, 2009
The daily round trip is 100 miles, he said. "I tried to do something on my own for a year and it didn't work out. I was very grateful to come out here," he said. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Editorial: Train request has promise Jul 25, 2009
The talk is of up to six daily round trips shuttling between Eugene and Portland, via Albany, Salem and Tualatin or Oregon City depending on which route is chosen. The most intriguing part of the idea is that it might shift passenger service from the Union Pacific mainline to the old Oregon Electric track used by the Portland and Western. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
State wants to expand valley rail (33) Jul 18, 2009
On the passenger side, the Oregon Department of Transportation said the goals include increasing daily round trips from two to six between Eugene and Portland, raising the top speed from 79 to 110 miles an hour, cutting the travel time from 21/2 hours to just under two hours; and reducing carbon emissions with electrified service, possibly powered by solar panels. In the draft of an intercity passenger rail study, ODOT studied the old Oregon Electric, now operated by the Portland rn Railroad, as... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Canada Mulling High-Speed Rail Linking Toronto and Montreal, Goodyear Says Jul 17, 2009
The investment will allow VIA Rail to boost capacity by adding two daily round trips on the Toronto-Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa routes. We need interim answers right now, and this is a perfect solution, he said. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Washington should be in line for high-speed rail money Jun 26, 2009
The state s seeking about 900 million over the next several years to improve high-speed rail from Portland to Seattle and increase the number of daily round trips between the two cities. But the San Diego-Vancouver, B.C., high-speed rail discussed in May would seem to be just the sort of vision federal transportation officials hope to encourage with this stimulus money. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Sweetness and Spite Jun 25, 2009
Suburbia awoke in her a passionate instinct for what a 19th-century Anglican hymnodist had called the daily round, the common task. Mankind is better off with trifles: With Band-Aid rather than the Bomb, With safety match than safety rifles. (The American Conservative)
Subverse: Happiness comes at death Jun 25, 2009
Now and then you had heard time's winged chariot drawing near, but had put it down to street noise and returned to your daily round of labour, leisure and slumber. Now, stripped of the usual diversions and evasions of life, the realisation begins to dawn: no matter how healthily you eat, how much you deny your sedentary desires in the name of fitness, no matter how many sacrifices you make to the great God of longevity, you are going to die. (India Times, India)
Wilmington home to new public transportation service Jun 24, 2009
Currently, the bus, which is a 14- to 18-passenger van, makes 11 daily round trips. Five round trips will be added on Saturdays starting June 27. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
Altmire champions high-speed rail Jun 23, 2009
But we re here in Pittsburgh, he said, where there is only one daily round trip to Harrisburg. So while the Keystone state enjoys a higher-than-average passenger rail availability as compared with other states, the western Pennsylvania counties are noticeably underrepresented in the equation. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
American Airlines reduces flights to Mexico May 6, 2009
American and its regional affiliate, American Eagle, will cut daily round trips from the U.S. to 31 from 42 currently because of weaker demand for travel to Mexico. The cutbacks will start Friday and run through June 10. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Woman joins that dread poets society May 4, 2009
Now she portrays her home life in a Lancashire suburb as a daily round of watching Coronation Street, "reading poetry on the loo" and playing poker. Telegraph, London. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* Subscribing to the great swine flu swindle Apr 30, 2009
The cause may lie in the national curriculum, the decline of news or the rise of blogs and concomitant, unmediated hysteria, but people seem helpless in navigating the gulf that separates public information from their daily round. They cannot set a statistic in context. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Requiem for the 'war on terror' Apr 17, 2009
But if, with linguistic substitutions and innuendo, he can pull it off, he'll be free to carry out the empire's daily round of OCOs, large and small, without having to worry about the meddlesome vagaries of public opinion. That's one big advantage OCOs have over wars: They tend not to attract too much attention. (Asia Times Online)
TGIF (Thank God It's Flat) Apr 9, 2009
She was initially daunted by the prospect of a daily round trip from Cole Valley to the Civic Center, but says, "once I got the courage to do it once (and figured out the correct route), I realized that it's much easier than you would think." The proper vector is crucial, though. Of her first trip home, she says, "I went up the hill at Page Street. I thought I might have a heart attack - I actually stopped on a corner to sit down and rest.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Slowdown's Gift To Beijing: Cleaner Air Apr 5, 2009
On a recent sunny morning, Li Heng, 66, joined dozens of seniors in Beijing's Ritan Park for a daily round of tai chi, the slow breathing exercises. "I think the air is much better recently. We can take very deep breaths and the air feels fresh," he said, inhaling and exhalingloudly before thumping his chest. (CBS News -- World)
Transcript: Obama On "Face The Nation" Mar 30, 2009
And it's the same war that we initiated after 9/11 as a consequence of those attacks on 3,000 Americans who were just going about their daily round. And the focus over the last seven years I think has been lost. (CBS News)
High-speed rail on faster track Mar 1, 2009
Proposed by 2020: Eight daily round trips Raleigh-Charlotte, and four Raleigh-Washington. Some trains would stop at every station; others would be express runs. (News & Observer)
Commissioners expect a deal on mining Feb 10, 2009
Original estimates were for 85 daily round trips, with trucks carrying 26 or 27 tons each, according to Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean. Tests last summer showed more than 10 percent chromite content in soil at the five proposed mining sites, according to ORC.. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
