Over the past few years, in what could almost be considered a crash program, the Spanish have tied together almost all of their major cities into AVE*, Spain’s high-speed rail...

I came across the following quotation from Mark Twain the other day:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be...

I’ve frequently written about the many countries around the world that have put a high priority on building high-speed rail. Over the past decade, for instance, the Spanish have linked...

The knee-jerk anti-anything-government ideologues in this country continue to insist that money spent on passenger rail is wasted. They’re full of crap. (Yes, I’m cranky. I’ve pretty much lost patience...