President Trump’s budget has been announced and I’m sure most of you already know that it includes nothing—Zero! Zip! Nada!—for Amtrak’s long-distance trains and for a number of important transit...
Charlie Laocha is the creator and president of Travelers United, the national advocacy organization for the traveling public. He testified recently before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by...
We’re constantly subjected to news stories, opinion columns and letters-to-editors from people who believe that passenger trains should either operate at a profit or cease to exist. “Subsidy” is anathema...
During most of the 1970s, I was in the Honolulu municipal government as head of the Office of Information and Complaint. I was appointed to the job by the mayor...