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Talking Transportation

Talking Transportation is a weekly opinion column written by Jim Cameron, a longtime CT Viewpoints contributor and rail advocate based in southwestern Connecticut.

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Hope for new Hudson River tunnels

by Jim Cameron | Columnist July 10, 2022 @ 4:30 amJuly 10, 2022 @ 9:10 pm

A new agreement could help widen a gateway vital to the Northeast’s economy, including Connecticut’s.

Posted inTalking Transportation

We assume we are safe on Amtrak and Metro-North

by Jim Cameron | Columnist July 3, 2022 @ 4:00 amJuly 5, 2022 @ 10:27 am

When we board a train in Hartford or New Haven, we settle into our seat and zone out. We assume we’re safe. That’s what passengers on an Amtrak train in Missouri thought last week.

I-95 Northbound Darien Service Area
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Welcome to Connecticut?

by Jim Cameron | Columnist June 26, 2022 @ 4:00 amJune 25, 2022 @ 5:16 pm

First impressions count.  And the first impressions we give visitors arriving on I-95 aren’t as positive as they should be.

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Readers like to rail, then rant

by Jim Cameron | Columnist June 19, 2022 @ 4:00 amJune 18, 2022 @ 1:52 pm

I love getting feedback from you, my faithful readers.  So I thought I’d share some recent comments.

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Why do trains have names?

by Jim Cameron | Columnist June 12, 2022 @ 4:00 amJune 10, 2022 @ 9:41 pm

Ah, for the glory days of American railroads!

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One toke over the Connecticut line

by Jim Cameron | Columnist June 5, 2022 @ 4:00 amJune 5, 2022 @ 11:37 pm

While Connecticut is still months away from legal recreational pot sales, it could be a boon for tourism and tax revenue when it finally happens.

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New M8 cars notwithstanding, Shore Line East’s future not bright

by Jim Cameron | Columnist May 29, 2022 @ 4:30 amMay 29, 2022 @ 7:21 pm

Now that the M8s are finally running on Shoreline East, trains will run a bit faster. But the problem is there are so few passengers.

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Hovercraft service from Bridgeport to NYC — an idea whose time came, then went

by Jim Cameron | Columnist May 22, 2022 @ 4:00 amMay 22, 2022 @ 4:50 pm

A little known part of Connecticut’s transportation history is that almost 40 years ago, commuters could ride in a hovercraft from Bridgeport to New York City.

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One million U.S. deaths and Connecticut’s spotty recovery continues

by Jim Cameron | Columnist May 15, 2022 @ 4:00 amMay 15, 2022 @ 9:21 pm

How are we all recovering from this pandemic? Joining transportation experts last week on a panel discussion, I heard mixed results.

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Why is there still no free Wi-Fi on Metro-North?

by Jim Cameron | Columnist May 8, 2022 @ 4:00 amMay 9, 2022 @ 12:11 pm

Commuter railroads across the U.S. offer Wifi, including Boston’s MBTA. Not Metro-North, but that may change.

A fuel cell bus at CT Transit’s facility in Hartford.
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The CT legislative session’s good, bad, ugly… and ‘fuelish’

by Jim Cameron | Columnist May 1, 2022 @ 4:00 amMay 1, 2022 @ 11:12 pm

As legislators congratulate themselves for cleaning up our state’s air, they encourage further driving, worsening our air pollution, while discouraging use of mass transit.

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If Connecticut state workers are overpaid, why so many open jobs?

by Jim Cameron | Columnist April 24, 2022 @ 4:00 amApril 24, 2022 @ 11:58 am

If the salaries and benefits of these so-called cushy state jobs are so great why can’t CDOT fill the 700 job openings it anticipates in the next few months?

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Metro-North’s hypocrisy unmasked

by Jim Cameron | Columnist April 16, 2022 @ 11:58 pmApril 17, 2022 @ 12:58 pm

For Metro-North to encourage commuters to come back to their trains and then allow them an unsafe ride is hypocrisy.

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Why they de-electrified the Danbury branch

by Jim Cameron | Columnist April 10, 2022 @ 1:00 amApril 21, 2022 @ 12:19 pm

In 1959, the last electric locomotive pulled a train on the Danbury branch in Connecticut. Commuters and planners have regretted it since.

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Self-serve gasoline in Jersey? Fugeddaboutit

by Jim Cameron | Columnist April 3, 2022 @ 4:00 amApril 2, 2022 @ 12:22 pm

Here in Connecticut we have to pump our own gas, but not in New Jersey, where another effort at self-serve has died.

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