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...Angeles A Case of Deadly Distraction? Investigators are seeking the cell-phone records of a Metrolink train operator to determine whether he was sending text messages just moments before a fatal crash outside L.A. on Sept. 12. The passenger train missed a signal before it collided with a freight train--leaving 25 people dead and at least 130 injured in the deadliest U.S. rail accident in 15 years...
...tough-talking prosecutor in Kansas City before becoming state auditor in 1998. Since losing the governor's race in 2004, McCaskill used her position as auditor to keep her name in the news, launching high-profile investigations into state-regulated nursing homes and cost overruns in St. Louis's MetroLink light rail system...
East St. Louis had less to lose. Still, the rising tide of riverboat revenues has not lifted all boats. The Casino Queen parking lot is surrounded by a high-security fence with guards in two watchtowers and on the ground. A new stop on the MetroLink commuter train, which deposits visitors at the boat, was designed to bypass the heart of East St. Louis, which even now has large tracts of urban desolation and 1,700 abandoned buildings.. "You have not seen a lot of gambling revenue trickle into the neighborhood," says community activist Alandra Byrd. But the casino...
MASS TRANSIT. Immediately after the earthquake, exasperated commuters resorted to what would have been unthinkable in their car-worship culture -- they flocked onto commuter trains. Metrolink, the city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...