Every three hours on average, somewhere in the country, a vehicle or a pedestrian is hit by a train. That’s eight a day … every day … day after day! And every damn one of them is avoidable. An investigation is underway, but the crash of a Metro-North commuter train was made even more…
I subscribe to The New Yorker magazine and admit without shame that I do so for the cartoons. I read the articles occasionally—the venerable Roger Angell’s annual mid-winter summary of the preceding major league baseball season has become a ritual and there was a devastating article recently about the brutal conditions facing young inmates confined…
At the end of this week, I’m going to fly from here to Seattle. Every time I fly to the U.S. mainland, about an hour into the flight, and with more than four hours to go, I wish the whole damn thing would be over. Whether 25 minutes from here to Honolulu, or many hours…
It’s big news, especially for long-distance train travelers: Amtrak is commiting $12 Million to rehab Union Station in Chicago. First of all, this is one of our country’s great railway stations and I clearly remember the first time I walked in to the station’s Great Hall, probably 25 years ago. My immediate reaction…