In U.S. transportation history, there is a crucial intersection between railroads and civil rights: formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car porters.

Is the NextGen Acela ready for prime time?  We shall see. But beware of the PR hype proclaiming NextGen Acela as the savior of American passenger rail.

I was a teenage toll collector on the Tappan Zee Bridge when the revelers from the Woodstock Rock Festival rolled up.

Riding the ancient Danbury branch of Metro-North is hard enough, but now it’s going to be shut down for two weeks.

Congress giveth (renewed life to AM radio) and taketh away (cutting a billion from PBS and NPR).

Sorry.  You’re too late.  You missed your chance: the deadline has passed for offering “public comment” on the upcoming fare hikes on Metro-North. Not that anything you might have said would have made a difference to the inevitable:  a 5% fare hike on September 1st of this year and another 5% jump in July of […]

If you survive TSA and boarding group 9, now you have to make it through the flight without your body unraveling like cheap luggage on a baggage carousel.

The end of June brings a sense of finality as school wraps up and summer begins. But there’s a lot of unfinished business on the transportation front worth remembering.

There’s something very satisfying about the efficiency of overnight travel — depending on how much you value your comfort.,

Stuff happens on a railroad that depends on aging infrastructure…. as it did last Thursday on Metro-North,

Connecticut cars registered out of state are costing municipalities millions in property taxes each year. No one is trying to collect it.

Did you know you can travel to many Connecticut state parks and beaches by train and a connecting bus shuttle? 

Over the last 20 years, I’ve come across some “fun facts” about transportation.  Try dazzling friends at your next barbecue with some of these gems.