The newly-elected governor of Wisconsin, Republican Scott Walker, has announced that he will not proceed with planning or construction of the high speed rail corridor linking Milwaukee with Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin. This corridor was among a dozen or so selected for high-speed rail links by the U.S. Department of Transportation…
A month or so back, U. S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was one of the featured speakers at a conference sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration where, clearly, most of the conference attendees were involved in the aviation industry. One of the speakers criticized the Obama administration’s focus on rail passenger service, which prompted Secretary…
Those of us who have been advocating more and better and faster passenger trains have spent the past decade or two shouting into the wind. The last eight years have been particularly frustrating since the late-and-unlameted Bush Administration was overtly anti-rail in general and anti-Amtrak in particular. During the recent presidential campaign, however, Barack Obama…
I have mentioned several times here how much I like Hawaiian Airlines: great equipment, great service and an unmatched safety record. Yesterday comes word through the Department of Transportation that Hawaiian led all other U.S. airlines in three categories for the month of January: on-time performance, fewest cancelled flights and fewest lost bags. (Hawaiian has…