The Rail Passengers Association will be meeting for the next there days in Washington and a new spin on an old argument is taking shape for presentation to individual members of Congress. If I may paraphrase, it goes roughly like this: For years, members of Congress have been complaining that Amtrak loses money. First…
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…
It’s heartening to report that the Cincinnati Chapter of the NAACP has come down firmly on the side of public transportation. And they’ve done it the right way . . . that is, with a formal resolution stating their conviction that affordable public transportation should be accessible to all Americans. Their plan is to…
The flight to Los Angeles from Hawaii is pretty much the same every time. About four-and-a-half hours after leaving Maui, you can first spot the lights of the mainland up ahead. Just before making landfall, the plane begins a long gentle right turn to the south, continuing an almost imperceptible descent over the city for…