Note: What follows is an extended comment from a regular reader from Belgium. His observations are so interesting, I am using them in full below . . . with many thanks. European, here. We don’t use trains to travel the width of the continent, either (well, some exceptions exist, I’m one of them, but we…
I really hate hearing passengers trash Amtrak for being “always late”, because the implication is that late trains are Amtrak’s fault. The truth is, Amtrak long-distance trains operate on track owned by the freight railroads and it’s dispatchers for the freight railroads who decide which trains get priority. Much of the time—probably most of the…
Everyone knows there have been horrendous long lines at a number of major U.S. airports as passengers check in and go through airport security. In particular, reports out of Denver and Chicago’s O’Hare tell of delays up to and even exceeding three hours. The result has been thousands of missed flights and hundreds of…