Through-to-Vancouver heavy rail service is out north of Seattle due to flooding. Scheduled to return Saturday. CascadiaRail to Vancouver, basically.
According to Sound Transit's website, however, Sounder commuter rail service is still scheduled to run at this time. (2:45pm 10 December)
#wawx #trains #train #AmtrakCascades #CascadiaRail #cascadia #flooding #floods
I missed this article on Cascadian high-speed rail planning last week:
https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/cascadia-forges-ahead-on-high-speed-rail-despite-headwinds/
There are big issues _particularly_ right now, but, well, everybody still wants it.
#rail #HighSpeedRail #CascadiaRail #cascadia #casPol #casPolitics
# Leaders from across the Pacific Northwest recently gathered at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Seattle and reaffirmed their commitment to building high-speed rail linking the corridor from Portland to Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. The Trump administration has created headwinds for the project by slashing transit funding and slapping tariffs on imports from Canada.
Yes!
#CascadiaRail would have cost #Canada far less, and built new infra somewhere it is desperately needed, but of course it would not buy #QC seats for the LPC. So, no, this isn't 'nation building', but at least it is a small (expensive) step in the right direction!
I suspect the numbers are helium, based on similar projects elsewhere. But the industrial investment could, theoretically, result in long term activity. It will depend on govt follow-through.
WSDOT is asking for input on the Washington State Rail Plan. Fill out the quick survey here: https://engagekh.mysocialpinpoint.com/WAStateRailPlan
Whelp, Amtrak just yanked most of CascadiaRail's trains out from under us.
It's supposedly corrosion concerns? But with this administration who even fucking knows. My _default_ reaction is to assume they're lying.
This is after yanking our previous trains and handing us these as temporaries pending the new trains we're buying - _ourselves_, as always - for 2026.
So now we've got one (1) train a day up and down the line, which is to say, fuck. everything.
They'll be running busses instead, which we can all agree suck.
Attached: 1 image NEW STORY // Amtrak Shelves 70 Aging ‘Horizon’ Traincars, Upending Cascades Service Indefinitely via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/26/amtrak-suspends-horizon-traincars-cascades/?feed_id=5666&_unique_id=67e46208afdf7
"Record-breaking year for Amtrak Cascades ridership between Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland" https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-cascades-vancouver-seattle-portland-ridership
#AmtrakCascades #Cascadia #CascadiaRail #Vancouver #Seattle #Portland #PNW
YouTuber "Lucid Stew" is back with another video about Cascadia High Speed Rail, this time with a thought experiment of building HSR exclusively by taking lanes away from I-5!
Certainly not a realistic nor desirable scenario (for many reasons outlined in the video) but as a tongue-in-cheek proposal we can learn a lot:
Someone let them loose, again. Those people with no respect for cars and drivers. Those people that think they can take lanes and replace them with high spee...
Via Axios: "Train travel in the Pacific Northwest is roaring back, with Amtrak Cascades trains seeing a 75% jump in ridership last year."
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/08/07/trains-amtrak-cascades-seattle-portland-pnw
#PNW #Cascades #Cascadia #Amtrak #AmtrakCascades #CascadiaRail #PacificNorthwest
@ingalls @smitha I'd also humbly suggest that none of the YVR/SEA/PDX airports needs to connect to High Speed Rail. Here in #BellinghamWA we have an airport with lots of spare capacity. Connect HSR to our airport and to the city centers in Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. You all can use our airport for medium and long haul flights!
#CascadiaRail #HighSpeedRail #HSR #transit #airports #AirTravel
@ingalls @smitha Although I disagree that all three airports are "near" to the city centers... for each one it feels pretty long on local transit to get downtown! 47 min from PDX, 40 min from SEA, 26 min from YVR.
When we build a new #HighSpeedRail alignment, we only need to hook up to one airport in the region. All other HSR stations should be placed closer to the city centers. Rail passengers from all over the region could use that one airport for medium & long haul flights.
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