It’s distressing and discouraging that those of us who are advocates for more and better and faster trains seem to spend a great deal of time just trying to save the meager and inadequate passenger rail system we already have. Mitt Romney has stated several times that he wants to eliminate the federal subsidy for…
I am on my way home from the three-day meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers held around this time every year in Washington, DC. There are a couple of regional political events related to passenger trains which NARP is watching carefully. First, there is the case of Janice Daniels, the mayor of Troy, Michigan, and…
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…
UPDATE: follow this link to hear brilliant and passionate criticism of this bill on the house floor by Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) .——————————————————————————-I have a couple more posts about a few of the railroad stations I passed through on my extensive rail journey last summer, but would like to interrupt that by sharing the following…