Green Line

The Worst Possible Option

Shai Baitel | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Negotiations, Jerusalem, West Bank, Quartet, State of Palestine, Land Swaps, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Nations, Fatah, European Union, United States, Hamas, Settlements, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, Israelis, Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, East Jerusalem, Russia, Borders, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Incitement, Herzliya Conference, Interim Agreement, Security, Green Line, World News
Shai Baitel

Whoever agrees that the preferred solution to the conflict are two-states-for-two-peoples needs to realize that this possibility to implement is gradually slipping away while no progress, however small or incremental, is being made.

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Oops! Red Line Train Runs With 2 Extra Rail Cars

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Red Line, Video, Metro 10-Car Train, Glenmont, Metro Mishaps, Shady Grove, Green Line, Wmata, Metro, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Three Metro personnel have been disciplined after a Dec. 2 incident where a Red Line train left the Shady Grove terminal with 10 rail ca...

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Red Line Crunch Expected This Weekend

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Virginia, Red Line, Metro Weekend Delays, Video, Yellow Line, District of Columbia, Green Line, Wmata, Public Transit, Blue Line, Orange Line, Metro, Metro Delays, Maryland, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Although Metro's rail passengers will get a reprieve from track work the Christmas and New Year's Eve holiday weekends, the transit agen...

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Green Line Stations Closed, Red Line Delays This Weekend

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: DC News, Red Line, Weekend Track Work, Marine Corps Marathon, Green Line, Wmata, Metro, Metro Delays, Track Work, DC News

WASHINGTON -- As part of ongoing system improvements, Metro will close four Green Line stations this weekend and operate Red Line trains on one track ...

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Watch Metro Rebuild Track Switch Near U Street Station (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Video, Yellow Line, Metro Construction, Subway, Green Line, Wmata, Public Transit, Metro, Track Work, National Transportation Safety Board, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Metro work crews have been busy throughout the three-day Columbus Day weekend reconstructing a track switch on the Green and Yellow line...

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Weekend Track Work Will Close Green And Yellow Line Stations

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: DC News, Weekend Track Work, Shaw, Yellow Line, District of Columbia, Green Line, Columbus Day, Howard Univeristy, Wmata, Columbia Heights, U Street, Metro, DC News

WASHINGTON -- For all those planning on using Metrorail over the upcoming three-day Columbus Day weekend, be aware that major track switch reconstruct...

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Weekend Track Work: Single-Tracking Continues On 4 Metrorail Lines

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Weekend Trackwork, Red Line, Green Line, Single-Tracking, Wmata, Transit, Blue Line, Orange Line, Track Work, Metro, DC News

WASHINGTON -- After last weekend's Red Line single-tracking mess downtown, Metrorail track work will impact four lines and necessitate shuttle train s...

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Planes, Trains And.. No More Automobiles?

Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: LAX Metro, Los Angeles Metro, LA Metro Green Line, Green Line, Los Angeles News

LA'ers, the horrifying commute to LAX might soon become obsolete. Picture it now: no more packing snacks for the inevitable Friday traffic jam, no mor...

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Jerusalem 2011

Ir Amim | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, United Jerusalem, East Jerusalem Expansion, 1967, Divided Jerusalem, Israel, Greater Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Israeli Settlers, Green Line, Politics News
Ir Amim

By Dr. Menachem Klein To be an egalitarian city, the unification of Jerusalem would had to have held this as its vision. Jerusalem could have been a ...

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The One-and-a-Half-State Solution

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Salam Fayyad, Imf, Israel, West Bank, Green Line, World News
Dr. Charles G. Cogan

A number of observers have noted recently the progress being made in the West Bank under the premiership of a former economist at the Internat...

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West Bank Settlers' Buy-in

Mira Sucharov | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Middle East, Green Line, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Peace, World News
Mira Sucharov

With the crisis over West Bank settlements currently dominating Israeli-Palestinian peace process headlines, less attention has been given to how the settlers will be convinced to relocate in a post-peace scenario.

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Constellation Blvd Is the Best Choice for the Wilshire Subway Century City Station

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Jimmy Delshad, Nimby, Crenshaw Corridor, 30/10, Va, Wilshire Subway, Washington DC, Congress, Beverly Hills, Century City, Los Angeles, Expo Line, Metro, Senator Boxer, Lax, 405, Public Transportation, Green Line, Westfield, Man Up, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

While it is unfortunate that the Beverly Hills City Council has now come out against the Constellation station location, we should remember that this was once a community that opposed the very idea of a subway.

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Boston Subway Fire (VIDEO): 20 Treated After MBTA Electrical Fire

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boston, Silver Line, Video, Electrical Fire, Green Line, Boston Subway Fire, Subway, Mbta, Smoke Inhalation, Tunnel, Massachusetts, Orange Line, South Station, T Line, Home News

BOSTON -- A smoky fire in a downtown subway tunnel late Thursday forced the removal of passengers from trains and the shutdown of several lines. Twen...

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Diane Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Green Line, Palestinians, Tel Aviv, West Bak, Gaza, Jerusalem, Oprah, Religion News
Diane Winston

In the past six days I've talked with more Palestinians than many Israeli Jews meet in a lifetime.

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CTA Green Line Stations Get Security Cameras

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CTA Green Line, Cta, Cta Security Cameras, Chicago Transit Authority, Green Line, Public Transportation, How Tomorrow Moves, Chicago News

Pickpockets and passengers at Green Line L stations -- the CTA is watching you. The transit agency has installed cameras at 24 Green Line stations, b...

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How Metra Lost a New Rider

Mike Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metra Rail, Chicago Commuter Rail, Chicago Public Transit, Chicago Transit Authority, Green Line, Mass Transportation, Cta, Carol Doris, Chicago Metra, Phil Pagano, Chicago News
Mike Doyle

For all the recent crowing from Metra about the transit agency's nifty new homepage, the site's online contact form limits written complaints to 500 characters. Not words. Characters.

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The Cartographic Crux of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Green Line, 1967-Green-Line, Israeli Politics, Hertz, Israel, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

The fraught political realities on the ground that are captured in the mapmaking process lie at the very heart of the problem.

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Train Lines Rerouted

Chi-Town Daily News | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CTA Schedule, CTA Brown Line, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Green Line, Green Line, Brown Line, Cta Reroutes, Cta, Cta Schedule Changes, Chicago News

Planned weekend installation of two new signal and train control systems in the Loop means Brown, Pink, Orange and Green line riders will cope with re...

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Green Line Hits Pedestrian

Chicago Tribune | Jeremy Gorner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Line Accident, CTA Schedule, Green Line Pedestrian, Cta, Green Line Crash, CTA Delays, CTA Accident, Green Line Delays, Green Line, Chicago News

A CTA Green Line train headed for the Loop struck a pedestrian who jumped in front of it early Monday on Chicago's West Side, police said. The incide...

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