For all the talk of adding new Amtrak routes and restoring others that were dropped over the past couple of decades, one unpleasant fact has always stood in the way:...
Subject to confirmation by an official announcement, the word is that Barack Obama’s choice for the new Secretary of Transportation is Ray LaHood, a Member of Congress from Illinois. LaHood...
The Chicago-to-Seattle segment of the trip did not start out well. Because of flooding somewhere in Wisconsin, we were treated by Amtrak to an 8½-hour bus ride from Chicago to...
I got an email yesterday from a friend in Kansas who was wondering why so many Republicans in Congress are so adamantly against using tax dollars to pay for rail...