Sometimes we’re confronted with an injustice so obvious and so outrageous that there is only one possible answer—the fix is in. Here’s a great example: Back in the 1950s and 60s, when the private railroads were losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the passenger business, they got permission from the federal government to stop…
I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone who has been around the intelligentsia, the rich, and the powerful throughout his professional career. Furthermore, he’s familiar with and sympathetic to what RPA is trying to accomplish: more trains, better trains, faster trains. Early in our conversation, I was complaining about the loss…
Those of us who are trying to get more and better and faster passenger trains keep getting opposition from both members of the public and some elected officials. They oppose more funding for passenger trains because they don’t need them and they don’t care if others do. It’s the same mentality displayed by those who…
Since the first of this year, five people have been struck and killed by Brightline trains, the new rail passenger service running between Miami and West Palm Beach in Florida. And for the calendar year 2017, a total of 17 people died after being struck by Tri-Rail trains. That’s the commuter railroad serving Palm Beach,…