The recent news that the Washington State Department of Transportation did not receive the $198 million it requested from the Federal Railroad Administration for its ultra-high-speed rail project is actually good news for rail transport in Washington. This gives Washington the opportunity to adjust course and save from hundreds of millions to many billions of dollars by getting back on the sensible track of implementing the Long Range Plan for the Amtrak Cascades. Hopefully, our governor and Legislature will seize this opportunity.
TokiTV - Can Trains Save Salmon?
Bill presented Solutionary Rail's analysis of wheat transport along the Lower Snake River and how public investments in shortline railroad capacity could help farmers and salmon thrive.
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Seattle Times: WA just dodged a bullet train boondoggle
WA just dodged a bullet-train boondoggle
Jan. 2, 2024 at 6:01 am
An Amtrak Cascades train from Portland passes T-Mobile Park as it arrives at King Street Station in Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times, 2021)
SR in the Press Archive
Growing collection of articles and interviews featuring Solutionary Rail (or directly related):
TokiTV - Trains Can Save Salmon? Interview Presentation by Bill Moyer, March 24, 2024
Seattle Times - OpEd - WA just dodged a bullet train boondoggle OpEd by Bill Moyer, Jan 2, 2024
Voice of Vashon - Small Talk Segment: Solutionary Rail and the use of Railroads in the USA Interview on the Brown Briefly Show, December 27, 2022
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Investing in Rail Now Could Save Money and Salmon Op-Ed by Bill Moyer and Nick Gerhardt, November 27, 2022
Spokane Spokesman-Review - Can Trains Save Salmon? Op-Ed by Solutionary Rail Campaign Lead Bill Moyer, October 29, 2022
AJOT - STB’S Oberman says US railroads reduced service, raised rates and derived $191 billion in dividends and buybacks since 2010 by Stas Margaronis (Not about Solutionary Rail, but directly related.)
Washington Monthly - Amtrak Joe vs the Modern Robber Barons by Phillip Longman
Railway Age - "Can we please be honest here?" by Matthew Parker (Not about Solutionary Rail, but directly related.)
Daily Kos - Why we can't have the railroads we need to save the planet. We're looking at you, Wall Street - by Larry Roth, August 10, 2021
Daily Kos - The IPCC report is a Code Red level warning. Here's one way we can act on it - by Larry Roth, August 9, 2021
FreightWaves - Is electrifying the freight rail network cost prohibitive? - by Joanna Marsh, April 28, 2021
KPFA Radio in Berkeley - Behind the News: A Program for Reviving Railroads - interview by Doug Henwood, April 22, 2021
KSQD Radio in Santa Cruz - Bill Moyer Shares the Vision of a Win-Win-Win Solution for America's Freight and Passenger Transportation Challenges - interview by Len Beyea, Talk of the Bay KSQD.org, March 18, 2021
Medium - There's a right track and a wrong track for the future of Washington state rail - by Thomas White and Bill Moyer, March 10, 2021
Volts - Transmission Fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid - by David Roberts, Feb 1, 2021
Good Day! Magazine - Granges urged to think of rail as part of climate solution - by Bill Moyer, December 2020
Davis Enterprise - Per Capita Davis: When innovation goes off the rails - b
Davis Enterprise - Per Capita Davis: Reimagining the railroads - b
Daily Kos - Interesting Rail News from Germany, England, and India. Then There's America, by Larry Roth, January 26, 2020
Seattle Weekly - Meet the group trying to electrify America’s railroads, by Aaron Kunkler, January 12, 2020
Adirondack Almanack - Viewpoint: Tearing Out Railroads Is Not Progress, by Larry Roth, January 8, 2020
The Olympian - Get behind Solutionary Rail, which would be good for climate, workers, communities, by Glen Anderson, November 28, 2019
The Crest, Sierra Club Washington State Chapter - Electrified Railroads Can Improve Carbon Footprint of Transport, by Tim Gould, Summer 2018
Environment and Energy Study Institute - Electrification of U.S. Railways: Pie in the Sky, or Realistic Goal? by Richard Nunno, May 30 2018
Counterpunch - Bring on Solutionary Rail, by Rivera Sun, February 5, 2018
Friends Journal - Book Review, by Ruah Swennerfelt, Jan 1, 2018
GreenBiz - Laying the Tracks for a Newly Powered Rail System, by Patrick Mazza and Bill Moyer, December 16, 2017
CleanTechnica - Solutionary Rail Proposes A Single Infrastructure Upgrade That Solves Two Chronic Problems by Kyle Field, September 16th, 2017
RECOMMENDED: Yes! Magazine - Summer 2017 issue & website - Electric Trains Everywhere: A Solution to Crumbling Roads and Climate Crisis by Stephen Miller, May 30, 2017
The Architects Newspaper reference to Solutionary Rail as a way of thinking about infrastructure. $647 million in federal funds for Caltrain electrification approved, By Antonio Pacheco, May 26, 2017
Real Change News - Feature - Backbone Campaign’s people-powered plan to electrify America’s railroads by Sydney Parker | May 3rd, 2017
Real Change News - Book Review - Local activist organization publishes proposal to electrify the rail system by Mary Paterson | April 12th, 2017
Speak Up! Speak Out! radio interview
Grist OpEd: How we can turn railroads into a climate solution,By Patrick Mazza, March 13, 2017
High Speed Rail America Club's #BuildIt campaign produced this interview:
Trains Magazine: Electrifying the Northern Transcon? Environmentalist author says electrified freight railroads help the earth By Justin Franz | February 28, 2017
Weather Channel: http://www.solutionaryrail.org/sr-weatherchannel
Thom Hartmann Show: http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/what-solutionary-rail-wguest-bill-moyer
In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/19344/solutionary-rail-transcon-proposal-the-backbone-campaign-pacific-northwest
And more:
https://www.riverasun.com/the-democracy-lab-winds-of-change/
http://clearingthefogradio.org/the-end-of-oil-opens-the-door-to-solutionary-rail/
http://breakfreepnw.org/2016/05/09/solutionary-rail/
http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2014/10/solutionary-rail-railroad.html
http://crosscut.com/2015/03/nw-rail-in-need-of-an-electrical-charge/
https://popularresistance.org/solutionary-rail-electrify-rail-corridors-for-freight-people/
http://redgreenandblue.org/2016/08/15/sunday-train-lets-build-steel-interstate/
http://davidswanson.org/node/5304
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2015/01/rail-workers-and-environmentalists-teach-each-other
