What would happen to you if you borrowed your company’s car and, thanks to built-in tracking technology, were caught driving 113 miles per hour?
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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NextGen Acela, the future is now
I finally had a chance to ride the new NextGen Acela and I have to admit, I was wrong: this really is Amtrak’s train of the future.
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Travel now, talk and text later
Once, when stuck in crawling traffic on I-95, I actually saw a guy reading a book. I’ve seen others shave or put on makeup. Give me a break!
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A new worry for motorists — e-scooters and skateboards
The proliferation of e-bikes and e-scooters is giving motorists another thing to look out for; and for their owners, new safety rules to observe.
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Back to the grind… in the air, at sea, and on the road
While you’ve been enjoying the summer (me, too!) we need to get updated on what’s been happening on our roads, rails and waters.
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Walking the Appalachian Trail
How one hiker found healing and restoration on one of the country’s most iconic trails.
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Where railroads and civil rights met
In U.S. transportation history, there is a crucial intersection between railroads and civil rights: formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car porters.
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Amtrak’s new Acela starts soon. Worth the wait?
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.
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The Woodstock Festival on the Tappan Zee Bridge
I was a teenage toll collector on the Tappan Zee Bridge when the revelers from the Woodstock Rock Festival rolled up.
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Metro-North’s higher fares, new rules equal bad optics
CT commuters will be paying more, but getting no improvements in Metro-North service.
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A better Danbury branch of Metro-North
Riding the ancient Danbury branch of Metro-North is hard enough, but now it’s going to be shut down for two weeks.
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Saving AM radio, punishing public broadcasting
Congress giveth (renewed life to AM radio) and taketh away (cutting a billion from PBS and NPR).
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The inevitable Metro-North fare increase
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 […]
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A monorail — not the answer to CT’s transit needs
Whatever your fantasies are about space-age travel by monorail, let me dispel your dreams with some facts.
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Flying ailments — jet lag is the least of it
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.
