{"id":3869,"date":"2023-02-21T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/architecture\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:10:54","slug":"rethinking-passenger-rail-options-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/architecture\/rethinking-passenger-rail-options-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Passenger Rail Options: 19th Century Freight Lines or the Townless Highway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cRethinking Passenger Rail Options: 19th Century Freight Lines or the Townless Highway?\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;presentation by Barry Gore, Transportation Planning Advocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a1\">Lecture Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>New federal funding for intercity passenger rail brings planning to a crossroads: should investments focus on incremental \u2018baby steps\u2019 to expand service on old freight corridors or should new models be considered that utilize publicly-owned right-of-way along interstate highways? What are the safety and speed benefits of avoiding small towns on historic rail lines, and how might station locations along the \u2018Townless Highway\u2019 (Benton MacKaye 1931) be planned and accessed? Learn about innovative solutions for implementing high-speed rail around the country and ongoing discussions in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a2\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barry Gore<\/strong>&nbsp;is an urban planner and designer specializing in public transit and land use. He has a master\u2019s degree from the University of Wisconsin Department of Landscape Architecture and has served in public sector and consulting positions. Work on transit corridors in the Twin Cities included: Hiawatha Light Rail Transit, Central Corridor LRT, Northstar commuter rail, and Riverview bus rapid transit. He also managed the Humboldt Greenway redevelopment project, worked on the Midtown Greenway rail to trails, and wrote the award winning Above The Falls riverfront plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His \u201cIsthmus Ridge\u201d concept, published in 2002, provided a new vision for the East Washington corridor in Madison. He created the Yahara Station concept in 2009 for locating Madison\u2019s intercity passenger rail station and founded the Campaign for Yahara Station with an active group of real estate, architecture, and transit activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chicagoland, he was project manager for the Village of Niles on the region\u2019s first suburban bus rapid transit. Metra station area plans were created for the villages of River Grove and Buffalo Grove. Mr. Gore managed plans for four stations on the Washington D.C. Metrorail system in Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland. 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