Following the tragic accident last week near Philadelphia, conservatives have once again started to call for privatizing Amtrak. There’s an article in Forbes magazine with that as the subject and of course the libertarian “think tanks” and all the usual suspects in Congress are banging on that drum again. The thing is, it’s never…
OK … here’s a question for you: With more people riding Amtrak trains than ever before, and with Amtrak repeatedly setting new revenue records, why are some members of Congress still trying to gut, if not actually kill, our national passenger rail system? In the House, Florida Republican John Mica chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure…
I’ve frequently noted here that the rest of the world has had the right idea about passenger rail for a long, long time … with government investing heavily in high-speed systems linking major urban centers. Over the same span, we here in the U.S. we have allowed our rail system to stagnate. As a people,…