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- More workers interested in carpooling, mass transit for commute
- REGION Signs posted recently along some southcentral Pennsylvania highways direct commuters to consider new ways to get to and from work. Commuter Services of South Central Pennsylvania, a federally funded nonprofit agency, created the 50 signs to encourage commuters to stop driving solo. Whether by mass transit or...
- Research articles 2008-09-05
- Booming elsewhere, high-speed rail sees delays in US
- WASHINGTON AFP — In November the Eurostar bullet-train blew the doors off commuter rail travel, sprinting the 213 miles (343 kilometers) from London to Paris in two hours 15 minutes -- and leaving tortoise-slow US trains in the dust. Over a similar distance -- Washington to New York --...
- Research articles 2008-05-02
- Statement by the Press Secretary
- WASHINGTON -- On December 30, 2007, the President received the report and recommendations of the Presidential Emergency Board appointed to investigate a dispute between the National Railroad Passenger Corporation Amtrak and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the International Association of Machinists and...
- Research articles 2008-01-03
- Senate passes Amtrak reauthorization.
- Last week the Senate voted 70-22 in support of S. 294, the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 PRIIA. The bill would reauthorize Amtrak and provide $11.4 billion for the rail system over the next six years. The Senate passed several amendments...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- 30th Street outage leads to delays
- A power failure late yesterday afternoon in 30th Street Station caused about 10 trains to be delayed as Amtrak workers struggled to board passengers in the dark.The longest train delay was 45 minutes, said Amtrak spokeswoman Karina Ronero, but the average was 10 or 15 minutes.The outage began at about...
- Research articles 2007-10-20
- On the Side | On the train, a strange brew
- The time: 11:35 a.m. The date: Wednesday, Jan. 17 The place: The Cafe Car of Amtrak's Train 184, en route to Philadelphia from Washington. The offense: My cup of coffee. It began innocently enough. I'd run into an old friend...
- Research articles 2007-01-25
- BNSF Railway Begins Track Maintenance Renewal Project Between Bakersfield and Fresno
- The BNSF Railway Company BNSF today announced that it has launched a $17.5 million track maintenance project on its main line between Bakersfield and Fresno, Calif. that will help improve the reliability and ride quality of both passenger and freight trains using the route. To minimize the impact on...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Study: Commuters taking trains more
- While cheaper gas and the open road beckoned in October, Californians flocked to the state's intercity railroads in numbers not seen since the birth of the freeway system. The Bay Area and Central Valley led the charge, with the Sacramento-Oakland-San Jose Capitol Corridor line increasing 9 percent...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Trains set record despite cheap gas
- While cheaper gas and the open road beckoned in October, Californians flocked to the state's intercity railroads in numbers not seen since the birth of the freeway system. The Bay Area and Central Valley led the charge, with the Sacramento-Oakland-San Jose Capitol Corridor line increasing 9 percent...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Residents embracing the rails, despite cheap gas
- While cheaper gas and the open road beckoned in October, Californians flocked to the state's intercity railroads in numbers not seen since the birth of the freeway system. The Bay Area and Central Valley led the charge, with the Sacramento-Oakland-San Jose Capitol Corridor line increasing 9 percent...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Officials make plans for planes and trains
- In the world of planes and trains, the Bay Area's watchwords are development and expansion. The regional economy has been soaring, more planes are landing, and Caltrain keeps chugging along. On the aviation front, the Regional Airport Planning Committee is evaluating the expanding traffic...
- Research articles 2006-10-07
- Trading up
- One of the best things about living in the United States is that consumers can walk into stores and find food products and manufactured goods from all over the world. The things we buy make each American a United Nations of consumerism. Our clothes come from many countries around the...
- Research articles 2006-07-31
- Letters to the editor
- Celebrate citizenship Happy birthday, Declaration of Independence! You are 230 years old and a true symbol of freedom worldwide. Americans are proud of the way our country has evolved all these years as a free nation. Our nation's principles include the right as an individual to...
- Research articles 2006-07-09
- DC Straight Cafe set in stone after five years.(UPDATES)
- Then: When Dan and Carol Straight opened their restaurant on April 2, 2001, they told the Wenatchee Business Journal that searching for customers or marketing the restaurant wasn't a necessity--the customers were delivered to them several times a day. Their restaurant, D.C. Straight Cafe,...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- NEW TENANTS HAVE DEPOT ON TRACK
- The Train Station BBQ restaurant and other tenants are bringing new life to the Amtrak depot at 601 St. Andrew St. Lisa and Dan Thill will open the new barbecue restaurant Tuesday ay in the east end of the depot. It's one of five tenants that Rick Masrud and...
- Research articles 2006-06-25
- Power problem halts trains in N.J. and NYC
- Amtrak blamed a "power fluctuation" for electrical problems that stopped nearly 70 trains in the New York-New Jersey area for about 30 minutes during rush hour Wednesday morning. Thousands of commuters were affected. The outage and one earlier this month were minor compared with a problem May 25 that shut...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Amtrak loses power for 3d time
- The third unexplained power failure in four weeks along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor yesterday snarled rail traffic at the height of the morning rush from Newark to New York City for as long as an hour. A massive outage May 25 on tracks between Washington and New York halted thousands...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Speedier cheap rail to N.Y.?
- NJ Transit chief George Warrington is pitching a new rail service between Philadelphia and Newark, with the goal of giving central New Jerseyans a quick, cheap ride into Center City. But the trains, which could be running within a couple of years, also would give another travel option to...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Amtrak presses its probe of massive rail power outage
- Seeking the cause of a massive rail outage Thursday between New York and Washington, Amtrak technicians downloaded data yesterday from its power substations, which will be analyzed for clues to what triggered the cascading shutdown. As the investigation continued, normal service resumed for area Amtrak, SEPTA and NJ Transit...
- Research articles 2006-05-27
- Power outage halts Northeast rail service
- A major power outage on Amtrak's busiest corridor stranded tens of thousands of rush-hour passengers Thursday from Boston to Washington, D.C. The three-hour ordeal trapped many travelers in sweltering trains with overflowing toilets. Some passengers got out and walked to the next station. The morning outage tripped electrical circuit...
- Research articles 2006-05-26
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