CityKin

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accele...

In a comment post a few days ago, Quim posted a link to the PBS show "Beyond Motor City" I just watched it and found it some of...

This was the set of links in the weekly email from Protransit. If you're not on their email list and are supportive, send your contact ...

I've been offline a lot lately, but I haven't seen anyone else note that last week, Joe was on a nationally syndicated show, Smart ...

There are a lot of myths flying around about Issue 9 as we approach the election. It seems every stage of the process has been designed to c...

If you have been listening to the sound bites in favor of Issue 9, the anti-passenger rail amendment, you have heard the word boondoggle ban...

China plans to build 42 new high-speed rail lines over the next 3 year s. By 2012 it will have added 13,000 km of high-speed rail line. It...

Wow. I just watched this video from Thursday. Years from now, I hope that this will be seen as the day that transport in this country began ...

Michael Dukakis recently talked about how relatively easy it would be to fix passenger rail infrastructure, lay double tracks, etc., and get...

Now that our pretend city has its very own streetcar to circulate people within, they need more rail transportation to connect with other Le...

  Interesting interview in Wired with Michael Dukakis, rail advocate: Dukakis:...It's absurd to say we don't have money to expand r...

The ... 300-mile Milan-Rome route ... in three hours and 30 minutes 18 times a day. (speeds up to 186 mph) ... ...one-way ticket can cost ar...

Petition Obama to invest in transportation alternatives. Here is the Vision .

...Biden commutes back-and-forth from Delaware to Washington regularly on the Acela, so he appreciates what high-speed rail can do. What’s m...

An Obama quote from yesterday, as per Grist : The irony is with the gas prices what they are, we should be expanding rail service. One of th...