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News & Commentary

The latest passenger rail and transit news

Pay no attention to the tax-sucking behemoths behind the curtain

Flashback Friday: A gift for Reagan, clean air & trains, Iowa specials, and Railfone

Better than Google Maps?

Public-private partnership commits to improving Scottish trains

On the local level, there’s a solid consensus for greater investment in mobility

Fewer flights mean more trains are needed

John Mica’s Circus Sideshow, Part ∞

Students speak out for passenger rail

Prophets of Smart Growth

Dr. Anthony Perl on the Bipartisan Reality of Trains and Transit

More information=better decisions=more trains & transit

South Africa Takes Bold Step With Train Order

Thanksgiving means crowded trains

“The taxpayer train?” How about the taxpayer highway?

William Graham Claytor, Jr. Destroys the Media’s View on Rail in 1985 and today

New Apps turn transit options into transit system

A national transportation network for the price of one highway bridge

Did "petty politics" kill Florida HSR?

"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