The latest edition of News Wire Recommended Reading ranges around the world, looking at everything from a new rail line in India to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s long, strange trip to replacing some of its rapid transit equipment.
— The New York Times provides a look at India’s new rail line to Kashmir, which opened on Friday (June 6), as well as the conflicting political views of it. (From a railfan perspective, this may be worth clicking on just for a couple of the photos.) The 170-mile line features the highest arch rail bridge in the world, crossing some 1,200 feet above the Chenab River; the BBC has more photos of that bridge here.
— Also from the Times is a recent opinion piece that Trains reader urged us to share. It argues the U.S. has missed the boat by failing to develop a better passenger rail network.
— Back in the U.S., the website Capitol News Illinois digs into the Illinois legislature’s failure to address the funding crisis for Chicago-area transit, why it wasn’t addressed, and what comes next.
— Finally, public radio station WBUR examines the painfully long-running effort by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s efforts to acquire new railcars for its Red and Orange rapid transit lines, and accompanied it with an easy-to-follow timeline of the entire saga.
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