Making Streetcars Real
The return of streetcars to a growing number of American (and European) cities is a good thing. New streetcar lines have brought development, increased use of public transport by the middle and...
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Destination: San Diego
I recently fled the Cleveland winter for the happier climate of San Diego traveling as God intended by train. The trip was enjoyable, as trips by air are not. Even off-season the sleeping cars were...
View ArticleGetting It Right
I was in Palm Beach in February escaping the vagaries of winter n Cleveland – – for us, February is a surplus month – – and I read a story in the February 26 Palm Beach Post that is good news for...
View ArticleCITYLAB GETS IT WRONG
The Atlantic’s publication, CityLab, has published a number of sound, thought-provoking pieces. Perhaps man’s inherent fallibility dictated they would eventually get something spectacularly wrong. In...
View ArticleThe “Sick Passenger” Problem
The November 24th New York Times carried a front-page story titled, “Hated Words Subway Riders Are Hearing More: ‘Sick Passenger.” It is not just in New York City that transit riders (mostly rail) are...
View ArticleL.A.: Rail Transit Works, Cars Don’t
I recently spent a week visiting friends in Los Angeles, and I quickly learned a basic fact about that city: rail transit works, cars don’t. Every time we tried to go somewhere by car on L.A.’s famous...
View ArticlePresident Trump May Be a Friend to Transit
While many Republicans politicians oppose public transportation, especially rail transit and intercity rail, Donald Trump appears to be a supporter. Perhaps that should not surprise us given that is a...
View ArticleWhy Self-Driving Cars Do Not Threaten Rail Transit
The latest nonsense from the paid critics of rail transit is that self-driving cars will soon make rail transit obsolete. Ridership will plummet and transit lines will become white elephants, pointless...
View ArticleFree Tracks For Transit
Wouldn’t it be great if transit operations got free tracks? All they would have to buy would be the rail vehicles, stations, and car barns. Well, according to a recent story in the New York Times, the...
View ArticleThe Las Vegas Monorail
I was recently in Las Vegas and took the opportunity to ride that city’s monorail. The question surrounding it is and has been and remains whether it counts as transit or is merely an amusement park...
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