CHICAGO–Amtrak’s co-president and CEO, Richard Anderson, spoke to NARP’s annual Fall meeting yesterday and pretty much said all the right things. He indicated unqualified support for the national system, spoke...

Members of the National Association of Railroad Passengers will congregate in Chicago from the 2nd to the 5th of November for RAILNATION CHICAGO. It’s our annual Fall meeting, but this...

I’ve been involved with the National Association of Railroad Passengers for a dozen or more years now. NARP has two primary missions: first, to promote more and better and faster...

As I guess most of us already know, the Trump budget for 2018 eliminates the federal subsidy for Amtrak’s long-distance trains. This doesn’t come from within the Trump Administration, of...

Charlie Laocha is the creator and president of Travelers United, the national advocacy organization for the traveling public. He testified recently before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by...

OK, to recap . . . the Obama Administration authorized a federal grant of $647 million to the Caltrain commuter railroad in the Bay Area. It runs from San Francisco...

Amtrak could be in trouble. As we speak—and compatible with the ideology of their benefactors, the Koch Brothers—the Heritage Foundation has apparently made a number of budget and tax recommendations...

(NARP has been criticized for years by other organizations claiming to be advocates for passenger rail because we receive about $22,000 per year from Amtrak to cover a portion of...

I received a solicitation the other day from an organization claiming to be the only advocate for all of America’s rail passengers, including commuter and transit as well as folks...

One section of the comprehensive Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act—hereinafter and into perpetuity referred to as the FAST Act—created the National Advisory Committee on Travel and Transportation Infrastructure (to be...