Abolish Amtrak
Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?
Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
These handouts will flow to businesses—often big and rich—for projects they would likely have taken on anyway.
Requiring two-person crews on freight trains wouldn't have prevented the East Palestine disaster. It's simply a giveaway to Biden's labor union allies.
Private, for-profit intercity bus services are a remarkable example of free market transportation. Socialists naturally want to shut it all down.
Brightline is the first privately funded intercity rail line in the U.S. in over 100 years.
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.
One company is betting that it can run a commercially viable passenger rail service without massive federal subsidies.
Service cuts that reflect falling demand and zoning reforms that bring more fare-paying residents back to cities could shore up transit agencies' budgets.
The legislation—which was introduced in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—pushes pet projects and would worsen the status quo.
The rail lines servicing Washington, D.C.'s Union Station are carrying as little as a quarter of their pre-pandemic ridership. Officials still want to triple the station's capacity.
From delivery fees to streaming taxes, New York can’t stomach having MTA users actually pay for the system themselves.
A bipartisan bill backed by J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown would include a two-member crew mandate that unions have long sought—and that wouldn't have prevented the Ohio disaster.
The Ohio train accident was frightening enough. Spreading inaccurate information won’t help the citizens of East Palestine.
For transit to continue to serve a valuable role in the few places where it can compete, policy makers will need to rethink how service is provided.
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Putting the district's train system back on track will take more than better bureaucracy.
WMATA suspended automated train operations after the deadly 2009 Fort Totten crash. Perennial efforts to bring them back over the past decade have repeatedly fallen through.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.
Advocates of high-speed rail have been overpromising and underdelivering for decades, but Biden just raised the bar.
A struggling, costly boondoggle sees a much friendlier administration taking charge.
As the state deals with budget cuts and deficits, some boosters still fight to keep construction going.
This is what happens when you think all of America looks like the Acela corridor.
The Trump Administration has cut off funding for the budget-busting boondoggle.
"When you bow to these woke scolds, they accept it as weakness."
State leaders cannot seem to let a bad project die.
Without a realistic avenue to complete the project, why would they keep helping pay?
A corrupt boondoggle that broke the bank for subsidized middle-class trips would not have been the flagship for a greener America.
Celebrate, don't mourn, the end of what's always been a bad plan.
Gavin Newsom wants to build only the top half.
A ballot initiative planned for 2020 would let voters kill the overbudgeted, underfunded, behind-schedule monstrosity.
Spectacular but rare accidents receive the bulk of the attention.
The money pit is turning into a black hole, as critics predicted.
Less flashy improvements would save more lives for far less money.
The first leg is already seeing massive cost overruns. Imagine its future.
Quentin Kopp convinced voters to approve the project. Now he's suing to kill it.
The D.C. Metro has perfected the art of replicating the traffic woes above ground in the tunnels below.
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