There are a couple of pieces of interest that have come out in the last week talking about high speed rail and TOD at Diridon.  Google is g...

In a two part discussion of French high-speed rail and cities, guest host and German Marshall Fund fellow Eric Eidlin interviews Stephan de ...

Eric Eidlin joins the podcast to talk about his German Marshall Fund research on High Speed Rail in France and Germany.  Definitely check i...

This week we continue our conversation with Christof Spieler on Houston, this time focusing on transportation including discussions about BR...

Some notes for the weekend... If road projects like this one had to go through new starts they would never get built. This road like all o...

I appreciate the Northeast Corridor and would love for us to spend more money there. But don't screw over California or other mega regi...

I know that Robert and everyone else is going to take a hammer to this one, but it's really annoying when people like Megan McArdle jus...

I posted a few weeks ago about an discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher where Chris Matthews was arguing with a "Amtrak does nothing&...

This exchange on Real Time with Bill Maher between Chris Matthews and Ross Douthat is the perfect example of why this country is so misinfo...

Notes for folks: China is seeking their own manifest destiny with trains. (Reuters) ~~~ China's Urban property is going up in price . (...

Perhaps a knowledgeable and keen businessman such as Warren Buffet is the key to restoring the railroads to prominence in this country. It ...

They don't want a tram, they want a subway . via ( GGW ) ~~~ Paz takes a look at TOD at Castle Shannon . I agree with him that transit...

I'm not really quite sure what to think about this. It seems as if we had a real national rail program that chambers of commerce and cit...

And so it begins. the Southwest Airlines CEO believes that the federal government shouldn't give it a competitive advantage. After his ...

Yesterday was such an HSR frenzy that I thought it should be documented: First, David Lazarus questions whether transit will work in the Un...

Karlsruhe, notorious for their introduction of tram trains, is looking at nickel cadmium batteries for short segments of the line where the...

I agree with Ryan , Glaeser seems to forget all his own research when he wants to become Randall O'Toole's cousin. Here's the q...

Links and ink: I really like the idea of setting a baseline for ridership and road usage so you can use it for performance measures later. ...

Thanks to Adam P for pointing out this brilliant picture of Ray LaHood on a TGV train. Via AFP