So last night I went and told the Federal Railroad Administrator and about a dozen of her employees that their plan is bad and they should feel bad.

This apparently made for some pretty good copy.

In reverse order of publication today:

Jim Saksa, PlanPhilly/WHYY
FRA presents expensive, alternative futures for Amtrak's Northeast CorridorSandy ( Read more... )

View poll: Winter Storm Juno

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WHY was I not informed of this?????

(I would apologize to everyone I just earwormed, except I'm really not sorry. Which is how you can tell I'm not actually Canadian.)

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Hyperloop[citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] ( Read more... )

Anybody have recommendations for a good place to get a late lunch in Doylestown?

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Anybody who has known me for any length of time whatsoever knows I have some fairly strong opinions on subject matters related to transportation, and especially urban public transportation. It's been long past due that I get myself and my opinions out of other people's comment sections and message boards, and start collecting them all in one place ( Read more... )

Virgin America's interiors still look like a mid-1990s Slovak discotheque.

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Dear Secret Santa:

Today, Amazon delivered your package, which contained a copy of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System. It's awesome! Or rather, it looks awesome, because I'm a little afraid to remove the shrinkwrap. You see, I don't remember signing up for any Secret Santa circles this year, and if there was supposed to be any kind ( Read more... )

If your daily commute takes you between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, your best mode of transport is by bicycle. And is likely to remain so for at least the next week, if not the next month. This is, as far as I can tell from a distance of 100 miles, strictly true. I would put money on HOV restrictions being put into place on the ( ( Read more... )

New Englanders! If you have ever found yourself crawling across the Connecticut shoreline, wondering "why is my train so slow?" Here's why. (Downloadable KML version for Google Earth here.) This was done by one of the users at railroad.net using an Amtrak employee timetable; he promises NEC South and Keystone versions in the future.

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