SAN DIEGO LIGHT RAIL: ON TRACK '81

Metropolitan Transit Development Board is meeting its 30-month schedule for converting a 14-mile segment of former freight-only San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway into a light-rail transit line reaching the Mexican border. Methods of acquiring SD&AE, funding the project without UMTA participation, construction details, operations planning and estimates of potential traffic are detailed. MTDB owns entire 115-mile railroad and is resuming freight service to the East over this mountainous region.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1980-6-9

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 34
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 181
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Government funding; Light rail transit; Operations; Planning; Public transit; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: San Diego (California)
• Old TRIS Terms: Operations planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00315016
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1981 12:00AM