WASHINGTON ― Was President Joe Biden 's uncle eaten by cannibals? That's what he suggested − twice − this week when he said the remains of his uncle, a military veteran who died during World War II in...
04.18.2024 vancouversun.com , dailymail.co.uk , foxnews.com and 18 sitesPrivately owned train company Brightline will break ground next week on a $12 billion high-speed rail project connecting Las Vegas and Southern California. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg w...
04.20.2024 Washingtonpost.com and 2 sitesShe’s trained for this commute. A professor who has super-commuted from Long Island to Boston for the past 10 years says she prefers the lengthy roundtrip Amtrak ride each week over the daily grind of...
04.18.2024 Nypost.com and 2 sitesRegarding the April 14 news article “ Their son wanted an octopus. They ended up with 50 more. ”: The story of the Oklahoma family that yielded and finally conceded to their child’s irrational need to...
04.18.2024 Washingtonpost.comWhile 2050 is more than a quarter century away, The Virginia Railway Express wants to start transforming its commuter rail operations much sooner by offering Saturday services as it considers its System Plan 2050, part of holistic, multi-agency efforts to transform rail services in the commonwealth. Last year, the VRE Operations Board — which is represented by the nine jurisdictions that fund the commuter rail service — backed the agency’s budget that included a 5% fare hike, or 50 cents more, d...
04.22.2024 Nbc12.com and 1 sitesIt’s been a minute since the last Amtrak Series, which seems unimaginable since we share a corridor, the Atlantic Division and a sibling rivalry. But on the eve of the last one, Motorola had launched ...
04.19.2024 Nypost.comIn Xaxnar’s excellent post The truth about Amtrak, I began a comment that started to turn into its own essay, and I decided not to hijack the discussion and to write a standalone piece instead. Xaxnar...
04.18.2024 Dailykos.com and 1 sitesANDREW LIMBONG, HOST: Bullet trains were invented in Japan in the early 1960s. Since then, countries all over the world have adopted the technology and constructed sprawling networks of high-speed rai...
04.21.2024 Npr.orgX (formerly Twitter) is a resource for many things—with travel advice, experiences, and opinions near the top of the list. In an ode to the legendary American cross-country Route 66, we gathered 66 of...
04.19.2024 Lifewire.com🚄 Northeast Corridor service was disrupted by wire issues Monday afternoon 🚄 It took commuters hours to arrive at their destination 🚄 Impatient riders jumped off the trains and walked away NJ Transit admonished riders caught on video jumping off a...
04.19.2024 Wobm.com and 3 sites