Even after being out of the advertising business for a dozen years now, I’m still often reminded of a former client of mine back in Honolulu. He was the president of one of the banks in town and a wise man. Whenever one of his competitors came out with a new financial product or changed…
Having been to Europe three times in the past several years, I’ve had the chance to travel by rail in a number of countries, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway. Every one of those countries puts the U.S. to shame when it comes to train travel, specifically the size and scope of their national…
Those of us advocating high-speed rail for this country often begin our arguments by pointing out that high-speed rail has become the preferred transportation choice for many millions of people around the world. The Japanese started it with their shinkansen or bullet train which first went into service some 60 years ago. The French followed…
The Japanese started it all back in the 60s when they introduced the first so-called bullet trains, the shinkansen. The French followed with their TGV, the abbreviation for train à grand vitesse, which translates literally as “high-speed train”. Today, high-speed rail has become the preferred means of travel for most of the rest of the world…