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2013: Holding the Line While Building for the Future

It's the externalities, stupid!

Less convenience=lower ridership

The federal bias towards roads and cars

Building Transit Right, in the Heart of America’s Car Culture

Green groups should join the call for transportation reform

Redefining What is Possible

Transit Advocates Fight for Cincinnati Streetcar at Crucial Juncture

Bricks will Burst Bubbles

What the bipartisan budget agreement may mean

Empire Builder Schedule Slashed by Half Until Dec 15

Spain welcomes Paris-Barcelona TGV, auctions off new “ghost airport”

Rail investment meets Amtrak critic’s standard for wise policy

Building Up the Steel Interstate

Follow the money

Amtrak, NARP thank Hoosiers for saving and riding their train

Will Cincinnati's leadership learn from past mistakes?

The Inconvenience of Driverless Cars

"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."

Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference