Recent content by blueman271

I’m not sure where commuter rail begins and ends in Maryland/Delaware but in Connecticut it ends in New London and begins again at Wickford Junction (North Kingstown) in Rhode Island. I believe it is possible to ride a bus from New London to Westerly RI and transfer there to another bus to...

I live about 30 minutes away from Willimantic and I believe the remains of the platform are still there.

Going from Oakland to San Francisco takes one train and isn’t noteworthy. Yay he rode BART! This gentleman went from Oakland or San Francisco to Los Angeles using only public transportation which is noteworthy.

The Vermonter never ran east of New Haven however the Montrealer did from 1991 until 1995 I believe.

The below article, which may be behind a paywall, says Brightline expects to have a deal with Dade County in quarter 2 of this year and with Broward County shortly after that. Of course, if Tri-Rail coming to MiamiCentral is used as example, the actual train service will take years to...

No it is not possible to use the station without a visitor pass. This website https://www.quantico.marines.mil/Info/Base-Access/ will give you all the information you need to access the station. Unfortunately, I cannot comment intelligently on the parking situation.

Obviously I don’t have any inside information, I don’t work for Amtrak. But I would argue that the years-long delay and the Amtrak IG report are pretty good indicators that this contract has been mismanaged. If you paid me to build an addition onto your home and I told you it would take 6 months...

Is the East Broad Top Railroad a passenger railroad funded with taxpayer dollars? Do they transport upwards of 30 million people a year? If the answers to those questions are no, which I suspect they are, then the situations don’t compare. If Amtrak were restoring a steam engine for excursion...

They obviously don’t have any desire to improve connectivity, which is a shame. I’m of the belief that, in general, Amtrak should be doing their best to improve connectivity to local transit agencies. The more options people have to travel the last mile, the more likely they will be to consider...

The Tri Rail Metrorail transfer station has been there for almost 36 years. If there were any will or care for a direct connection it would have been done already.

I did a little research and it seems like in 2023 Metrobus “modernized” the bus network and dropped all service to the Amtrak station. So there is currently no public transportation whatsoever at the Miami Amtrak station. Which is a joke from a passenger connectivity standpoint for an area as...

If you owned a 25 year old car with 200,000 miles on it and a 2 year old car with 20,000 miles on it which one would you be more upset about breaking down?

Does Amtrak exist to serve the traveling public or does it exist to serve itself? If it’s the former there isn’t a single good reason to stay at the current location. If it’s the latter then all the points you have made are valid and Amtrak is once again acting in their own best interest to the...

I would say yes, Amtrak does misrepresent delays. I’ll give an example. At the end of October I rode Acela 2258 from DC to New Haven and were scheduled to depart at 415pm. I was waiting in the lounge and as 415pm came and went the train was still listed as on time which it obviously wasn’t...

That’s penny wise and pound foolish. Moving to the airport will undoubtedly cost Amtrak more but the benefits it would provide passengers would be exponentially greater than any cost increase. The ability to easily access transit and rental cars and the central geographic location of the MIC...