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Showing posts with label amtrak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amtrak. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2015

What if Amtrak cared about its Hartford riders?

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Welcome to another installment of our "What if?" series, where we ask what would happen if the people who ran our transit system t...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Decking the Sunnyside Yards: the history of a fantasy

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Becoming the Yards: 1643: Burger Jorrisen receives the first patent for farmland near the swamps surrounding the Dutch Kills. 1861: The Lo...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The transportation hypocrisy of civil libertarians

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It was in the news yesterday that the Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak employee over $800,000 over twenty years for confident...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The expense of East Side Access

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The news is that the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project, initially forecast to cost $4.3 billion and be completed in 2009 is no...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

We can't depend on the Northeast Corridor

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The big news this weekend is the major derailment and crash on the New Haven line between Fairfield and Bridgeport yesterday. The National...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Goals for long distance trains

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Man, you railfans are a chatty bunch! I think my two recent posts on the competitive environment for long distance trains and long distanc...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Long distance trains don't work?

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Everyone seems to have figured out exactly why long distance trains don't work, and can't work, in the US. I wrote before about th...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

The density to support long distance trains

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There's a new dust-up among transit bloggers, stirred by a recent report showing that while Amtrak's Northeast Corridor makes a prof...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

If you care about the Northeast Corridor...

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Last week I mentioned that the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and New York City has a wealth of transit options , all of them gen...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

A trip at every price

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Recently I've been impressed at how on the Northeast Corridor there's transit for everyone. At almost any price, there's some c...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How the high Acela fares save taxpayers money

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We know that Amtrak's Acela and Northeast Regional services are among the few Amtrak services that take in enough in tickets to cover th...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Amtrak revenue update update

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In response to my post last night about Amtrak ridership and revenue, Paul Druce pointed out that Amtrak's revenue numbers include gove...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Amtrak ridership update

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People have been talking about the gross numbers of Amtrak carrying more riders than at any time since its founding in 1972. I have a coupl...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Can we push for more buses AND trains?

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Alon Levy has posted a nice long response to my posts about bus service on the Northeast Corridor. Now, Alon and I are friends and we coul...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Buses or trains on the Northeast Corridor?

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On Sunday I posted about setting goals and working through disagreements. One area I had in mind was the Northeast Corridor. We currently h...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

What does mode shift look like?

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Last week I mentioned estimates that 86% of travel in the Northeast Corridor is by heavily polluting modes (5% by plane, 81% by private car...
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

How Amtrak can charge so much for the Northeast Corridor

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The New York Times tells us that if you focus only on trains and planes, Amtrak's share of the Northeast Corridor travel market is abou...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Why we shouldn't extend Metro-North on the Hudson Line

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Mid Hudson News reports that Metro-North is still no longer considering extending service to northern Dutchess County. I'm not sure wh...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Passenger trains are becoming profitable.

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Your Cap'n is not psychic, he just has his finger on the pulse of the universe. A week ago, Yonah Freemark tweeted a story about Amtra...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

The train to where?

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I have a question about the California High Speed Rail project. This post is inspired by Alon Levy's recent California high-speed rail ...
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