I think there have been eight occasions when I have traveled to or passed through countries with regimes unfriendly to the U.S. As a visitor in those countries, you stay out of trouble by keeping your mouth shut and not attracting attention. I was booked on a Russian train that departed in the late morning…
For years now there has been an effort to discredit and subsequently eliminate Amtrak’s long-distance trains. Most of it is based on a false premise: that the long-distance trains are losing millions of dollars a year and there is little if any economic benefit to justify the cost of any subsidy by taxpayers. Those who…
by Matt Melzer Twenty-one small towns may soon lose all air service under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program due to underperformance. Critics of passenger train subsidies inevitably point to the availability of road and air alternatives (whose subsidies they seldom acknowledge). In the case of aviation, there are myriad tax exemptions and indirect…
As many of you know, I serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Railroad Passengers—now known simply as the Rail Passengers Association. RPA is a non-profit 501(C)3 organization whose mission is to advocate more and better and faster passenger trains. It is the simple truth that RPA would not exist without…