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Honestly curious, why would they do it that way? There’s fundamentally no reason there couldn’t be a consistent row where the seating direction changes. Having the direction change in different rows for different cars is just asking for problems for no real reason. On all of the midwest/West...

Funny how passengers on the Surfliner, San Joaquin, Capitol Corridor, Hiawatha, etc., have had 50/50 forwards/backwards seating for decades just fine, but somehow it’s going to be this terrible thing on the NEC.

Meh. Overtime is something every transit agency deals with, and has dealt with since forever. And since the start of COVID and resulting staffing shortages, the choice has been OT or service reductions. Of course, they single out the top earners to try to get people riled up, but if they were...

The one problem I see with the 757 is…it’s too damn heavy, and therefore basically a non-starter as far as airlines are concerned (at max takeoff weight, it actually got “heavy” added to the callsign because ATC had to provide extra spacing for wake turbulence). There’s no new engine in its...

Confidentiality agreements would typically cover competitive information. I’d imagine something as sensitive as presidential movements would require security clearances administered by the feds, not a contractual employment agreement.

But the imbalance still needs to be rebalanced, or eventually you’re going to wind up with a bunch of Acelas piled up in WAS and nothing in NY.

A quick turn wouldn’t change the imbalance in the number of trains heading one way vs. the other.

Wow. That’s incredible incompetence not to, apparently, have so much as an email follow-up to a conversation about the purchase of a multi-million dollar piece of property.

I’m sorry, but I have to strongly disagree. There is virtually no universe in which having Madison Airport be “the” station for Madison makes any sense. As an additional “suburban” stop, a la MKA, maybe. But for the main/only stop, no way. If you’re going to serve the state capital and the...

I doubt those seats have extra legroom. The whole point of putting a plug there instead of a door is so the airline doesn’t have to work their seating layout around it.

There’s typically a lull in freight traffic between Christmas and New Years.

You could have saved yourself the time and stopped right there.

It’s quite easy to use metro with luggage. The fare gates are not rotary gates/turnstiles, but rather either a small gate that folds into the fare machine (older style), or a small door that swings open (newer style). The Red Line can be a bit crowded, depending on the time of day, but the area...

What is Washington DOT supposed to do? Conjure up equipment out of thin air? Amtrak is short of equipment as it is, and their fleet was never meant to cover Cascades service as it had its own fleet, five sets of which were retired following the derailment and subsequent NTSB report. It’s...

I don’t see how a radial network causes massive deferred maintenance stretching back decades. He also somewhat contradicts himself by noting that the commuter rail division has been doing reasonably well, despite its network being equally radial (and, of course, the commuter rail division was...

I don’t know who this “Amtrak worker” is with that info, but there is virtually no scenario out there where a Hiawatha train will wait for connecting passengers from the Empire Builder. “Ending in the same digit” has never been a factor in determining whether a train will hold (other than cases...

I don’t recall this being a thing.

As jis noted, VIA runs more frequently, and there’s less likelihood of them just pulling the plug and cancelling for random reasons. I don’t think either is likely to add cars to another train in the event of a cancellation (though, I suppose, it depends on the reason for the cancellation)...

Communication and coordination are different things. Having different groups communicate with each other is an organizational/cultural thing. Forcing services to coordinate with each other often runs into problems of mathematics and resource utilization.

Just book the multi-city online with your actual preferred itinerary, unless there’s a specific need for you to go to an agent to book (and, in this case, there isn’t). The likelihood of a 15-hour delay on the northbound into Emeryville so low as to not really warrant a consideration in your...