Articles tagged “amtrak”

Amtrak is refunding tickets for passengers who no longer want to visit New York this weekend, and its service from NYC to DC is being used heavily by New Yorkers travelling south to power.

The northeast has the U.S.'s best combination of roads, rail, and planes, so despite the amazing damage it's a role model for how a region can recover from a natural disaster.

Newark re-opened Tuesday morning, but it’s near impossible to reach the airport from New York City where Amtrak services are still suspended.

Amtrak’s political and legal obligations keep it running the revenue-draining long-haul routes in the Midwest where food service is only one factor contributing to major losses for the company.

It's a sign of progress that Illinois is looking to boost its speeds, but 111mph is nothing in China, where high-speed lines are already connecting rural communities with opportunity.

Amtrak is having its most successful year ever thanks to disgruntled fliers and business travelers looking for reliable Wi-Fi. Politicians should switch the discussion from cutting funds to investing in faster networks.

Amtrak's political critics like to nit-pick on Amtrak's small failings, even though those failings -- like service to low-ridership areas -- are most often the result of demands by local politicians.

This is by no means the fastest of high-speed trains around the world, but should the test run go well, it will be a vast improvement for the current railways and one step closer to the speed that is standard in Europe.

To get proper perspective on federal and state support for rail, it's about time rail advocates began yelling loudly about the true cost of highways and how it dwarfs anything given to subsidize rail.

The lunatic fringe's obsession with killing national rail program has again made its way into a national political platform. Why this group isn't equally obsessed with hundreds of billions more the federal government spends on highways is something for their therapists.