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EMC News - Two new reports show that Ottawa's Light Rail Project will generate $3 billion in economic stimulus and create 20,000 person-years of employment during construction alone. The City of Ottawa's Rail Implementation Office and the Planning and Growth Management department today released a pair of documents that illustrate the value and benefit of the city's Light Rail Transit (LRT) project. Business Case: Downtown Ottawa Transit Tunnel Project was developed as part of the city's Environmental Assessment requirements for the project. It speaks to the specific positive impacts associated with implementing LRT in Ottawa and provides a detailed analysis...

Busway Is A Dead End — Restoring Rail Would Serve More People BetterThe proposed 9.4-mile New Britain-to-Hartford busway — a paved corridor exclusively for buses that would connect only four communities: New Britain, Newington, West Hartford and Hartford — could cause the permanent loss of rail rights-of-way and deal a drastic blow to the state's passenger and freight rail service. The busway is estimated to cost $570 million. And that's just the estimate. This costly project will harm passenger and freight rail systems in Connecticut and throughout New England. It would pave over an existing rail right-of-way between Newington and...