It’s a simple truth: cost-cutting won’t take you to prosperity; it just buys more time.   That’s certainly true when it comes to passenger rail. Politicians in the U.S. have...

Following the tragic accident last week near Philadelphia, conservatives have once again started to call for privatizing Amtrak. There’s an article in Forbes magazine with that as the subject and...

I really enjoy planning my vacation travel. In fact, that’s true for all my travels, whether they’re for NARP business or for pleasure. I’ve got the Amtrak drill pretty much...

Life in a modern, industrialized society is complicated and it’s often the case that solutions to one problem just create different problems. Case in point: In 1997, Congress put a...