Amtrak locomotive and NJ Transit rolling stock in front of Gateway Plaza at LA Union Station
I spotted some NJ Transit rolling stock at Los Angeles’ Union Station last Friday. I should have taken that instead of flying back to the East Coast.
New Jersey Transit in Los Angeles
Read Full Post | August 27 2009 | The Swat Fit and Transportation |
The New York Times reported another TSA failure today. A man on the FBI’s most wanted list has been able to keep his pilots license and try to sell his old plane online:
With such a straightforward match, David M. Schiffer, president of Safe Banking Systems, said it was “highly unlikely” that, despite assurances in June, the Transportation Security Administration was matching the publicly available F.B.I. list with the publicly available F.A.A. list.
Classic TSA – make me take off my flip flops and take all of my electronics out of their cases (a five minute ordeal for a geek like me), but let known terrorists keep their pilot licenses.
Read Full Post | August 18 2009 | Transportation |
The Los Angeles County MTA finally launched Google Transit, or at least a “data test” for it. Too bad SEPTA beat them by a week.
Read Full Post | July 06 2009 | Transportation |
Acela
Today marks the 140th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. In celebration, Amtrak hosted National Train Day at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I talked with some members of the National Association of Rail Passengers, picked up some new information on the Silverliner V, saw some great paintings of trains, heard a former Pullman Porter talk about his experiences, and saw Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Probably the most exciting part was the rolling stock tour. I got to walk through an Acela trainset as well as an old Santa Fe dining car.
Read Full Post | May 09 2009 | The Swat Fit and Transportation |
A website I maintain, bostononthemove.org, was featured by Bostonist today in a post about the MBTA’s debt. I maintain this site for the Greater Boston Transportation Justice Coalition, of which ACE and TRU are members.
Read Full Post | March 31 2009 | Transportation |
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