Although some high-speed rail has been built in the northeastern US, the rest of the country has almost none.
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The French-designed, American-manufactured NextGen arrives years late and in a moment when federally sponsored trains are fighting for their lives.
The Supreme Court’s order has blocked this particular charter school, but similar issues could emerge in future cases.
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories.
Love it or hate it, the ‘Acela Corridor’ has developed a widely recognized identity thanks to the trains that link it together.
Public buses, subways and trains are relatively safe, fast and cheap. But competition from rideshares and concerns over COVID-19 will soon see some local agencies short of funds.
Workers still need to approve the deal, which was brokered by President Biden in 20 hours of last-minute negotiations.
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.
Rail advocates often make the case that trains are a cleaner mode of transportation, but why is that so? And what would it take to expand rail in the U.S.?
How does positive train control – safety technology that could have prevented this week’s deadly Amtrak derailment – work and why is it still not on US rails?
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Associate Professor of English, University at Buffalo
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