One of our colleagues recently rode the new Brightline service that will eventually run between Miami and Orlando in Florida. For this introductory experience, Rick took advantage of a special fare: $22.50 for the 40-minute trip from Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach and return, with a second free round-trip ticket for a companion as…
The obstacles facing high-speed rail in this country are mostly without merit and almost entirely political in nature. The on-going example of that foolishness is the relentless effort in Texas to stop the proposed high-speed train linking Houston and Dallas. Some of the opposition is coming from shameless politicians who are cheerfully misinforming their…
Assuming you’re a passenger rail enthusiast, you can click here for a story about two new high-speed lines that just went into service in France. One is a 187-mile run from Paris to Bordeaux built at a cost of about US$9 billion; the other runs 112 miles from Paris to the western part of the…
Years ago, before I moved to Hawaii, I was working in Hartford, Connecticut. One of my co-workers was a woman I remember quite clearly because she had no interest whatsoever in travel. And I mean any travel. She had never been as far south as New York City or as far north as Boston. I…