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With all due respect, that is completely false. The NTSB did NOT recommend retiring those cars. They recommended implementing standards for window retention. Excuse me. The NTSB recommended changes, that would be largely impractical and certainly not cost-effective with the existing fleet of cars g...

So, you mean passenger cars built to a 1940s weight requirement , right? I imagine the replacements will be lighter, and thus more efficent. That'd be a great marketing slogan. " Amtrak: When the federal government gets around to giving us a blank check to buy new equipment in possibly 20-30 y...

west point wrote:A B-727 has fuel consumption

When you take into account the immense weight of an Amtrak long-distance train compared to the weight of the cargo (passengers and their luggage) being carried, the energy efficiency of an Amtrak long-distance train is actually comparable to a standard mid-sized SUV. Amtrak and its' fanboi supporter...

But this is a big country, there might well be plenty of people who would rather sleep through a slightly longer trip, then have to stay vigilant for 5-6 hours of driving. Why are you trying to argue against a service that others might well like to use, just because it doesn't suit you? When is the...

The Culture Connector streetcar is uniquely poised to be a catalyst for economic vitality in Downtown I fail to see how a Streetcar can do what dozens and dozens of bus lines can't do, not to mention a light rail line, a monorail, a generally pedestrian friendly street grid, bike share, scooters......

Not only did the bill never move out of committee, it never got a floor hearing, a vote...it was dead, and it is dead. What's most damning, is TriMet has finally admitted (within its testimony) that WES directly pulled resources away from bus service (its testimony directly states that had TriMet no...

Germany's street railway and light rail construction and operating ordinance sets 43.5mph as the highest speed limit on drive-on-sight trackage for light rail and for buses on rails I believe on TriMet MAX the highest speed outside of ATC is 35 MPH (56 Km/H); in ATC territory it is 55 MPH (88.5 Km/...

We were in a city yesterday , and a diesel bus pulled up beside us. what a noisy , smelly thing , I instantly thought , as the previous city we had been in had battery buses . Funny how someone who complains about "noisy, smelly" buses have absolutely NO ISSUE with "noisy, smelly&quo...

Wigwag, do you think there is something else wrong with the operation? I make a lot of posts about service levels, timing/scheduling, market rate trackage rights... I don't doubt your assessment but find it hard to believe that in such an environmentally conscious area with a big university, they h...

No service or other mode runs at 100% load factor. Then I never, ever want to hear about "induced demand", "highways congested the second they are open", "endless highway congestion", etc. Because you just proved, it doesn't exist. An average of 100 riders means some d...

Albany (45k), Eugene (123k) and Salem (73k) all had record ridership...The numbers are on the Great American Stations website. Cool records. Call me, when those three heavyweight Horizon coaches are at 100% load factor. In July (the highest ridership month) the average train had 100 boardings south...

46,000 passengers rode within the Eugene to Portland segment while 45,000 passengers rode from somewhere south of Portland to somewhere within the Portland to Seattle segment (page 12). Doing the math, that's about 63 riders per trip (2 Talgo cars or 1 Horizon coach). Not good numbers Not good numb...

In these contexts, it seems Amtrak can only serve its customers if local governments are willing to allow it (and don't just entirely compete against it). And yet, every "Amtrak" station within 500 miles of me is "Amtrak" in name only, but a fully owned service provided by a Cit...

the trains with the highest ridership were the trains that ran EUG-SEA or PDX-VAC. Is that because of the "one-seat ride" theory, or because those trains had the best schedules for the PDX-SEA segment? Looking at the station on/offs, I would argue that while select trains (namely Saturday...