Passenger Rail

In the Public Interest: The Little Train that Could ... and Did

Tony Dutzik | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Passenger Rail, High Speed Rail, Mass Transit, Amtrak, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Transportation, Politics News
Tony Dutzik

When President Obama took office in 2009, he brought with him the greatest hope in decades for reinvestment in the nation's passenger rail system. T...

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The Virtues And Vices Of American Rail Travel

Thomas A. Shakely | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Virtue, Spiritual Experience, Nature, Amtrak, Trains, Conservation, Passenger Rail, High Speed Rail, Travel, Landscapes, Divine, Beauty, Vice, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Thomas A. Shakely

For all the manifest deficiencies and embarrassments of American passenger rail, its great virtue lies in its ability to introduce one to beauty.

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In The Public Interest: Arizona on Track for Passenger Rail

Serena Unrein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Phoenix, Tucson, Public Transportation, Rail, Passenger Rail, Jobs, Public Transit, Arizona, Politics News
Serena Unrein

On Friday, for the first time, Arizona's State Transportation Board approved a state rail plan which includes connecting the major metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson by passenger rail.

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GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mass Transit, US Auto Industry, Global Economy, GM Bailout, Bradford Snell, Cars, Passenger Rail, Green Power, Green Energy, Alfred P. Sn, Solartopia, Environment and Government, Who Killed the Electric Car, Bailout, General Motors, Standard Oil, Trolley Systems, Gm Green, Trains, Buses, Detroit Bailout, Global Warming, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

GM's special role in history must now evolve into using its infrastructure to restore the mass transit system -- and ecological balance -- it has helped destroy.

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