The severe storms that have been hammering the east coast over the past several days disrupted a lot of travel plans. Many of the people attending the NARP meetings in Washington had trouble getting there … and leaving, too. I was booked in first class on an Acela scheduled to leave Washington’s Union Station yesterday….
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 system. So how’s it all working out? Well, according to the National Statistics Institute, the month of January saw a new transportation milestone: 1.9 million…
A Conversation:How come you travel by train when it’s so much faster to fly? You mean, like from your office in Philly to your client’s office in DC? Yeah! The train is faster, dude. Not! The flight is 55 minutes, and Amtrak takes an hour-and-a-half. How long does it take you to get from your…
Every April, the National Association of Railroad Passengers meets in Washington for three days, one of which is our “Day on the Hill”. That’s when we visit members of our various congressional delegations and either thank them for their support of passenger rail or urge them to begin doing so. A couple of years ago,…