I really don’t understand the argument that if passenger trains can’t operate at a profit, they should go out of business. That’s what the Libertarians and the people presenting the Trump budget are saying: mass transit, commuter trains and Amtrak’s long-distance trains all lose money, therefore eliminate their federal subsidies and let ’em sink or…
For passengers riding BART—that’s the Bay Area Rapid Transit system connecting San Francisco with Oakland and many other points in the Bay Area—a 44-year-old annoyance may soon be a thing of the past. Anyone who has ridden BART knows that there are loud screeching noises when the trains pass through many of the curves…
Everyone in Boston, from the mayor on down to the shop owners on trendy Newberry Street, is agog over the news that General Electric will be moving its corporate headquarters to that city from suburban Fairfield, Connecticut. To locate it a bit more precisely for you, GE will be relocating to a waterfront area in…
Municipal transit systems have been around for a long time. The New York City subway system opened in 1868, but an elevated segment was actually operating five years before that. During my trans-Siberian train experience three years ago, I was surprised to find that several of the cities we visited in Siberia had extensive metro…