Assuming you’re a passenger rail enthusiast, you can click here for a story about two new high-speed lines that just went into service in France. One is a 187-mile run from Paris to Bordeaux built at a cost of about US$9 billion; the other runs 112 miles from Paris to the western part of the…
(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 the salary of the person who facilitates the Amtrak Customer Advisory Committee. This, say the critics, means NARP is unable to publicly criticize Amtrak, an…
There was a time when George Will wrote columns that were entertaining and made sense. Of course, those were the ones about baseball, a subject of which he has considerable knowledge. After a Will column that appeared a week ago, cleverly called “Off the Rails at Amtrak”, it’s quite clear that George Will knows next…
Later this month, members of the National Association of Railroad Passengers will be gathering in Washington for three days … one of which will be spent knocking on Congressional doors doing our best to promote the cause of passenger rail. It’s an interesting experience. And a sobering one, because the corridors are crowded…