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I do wish that Amtrak had some secondary stations that served neighborhoods in Chicago. Probably not for LD trains but it seems for corridor trains we could have some stops in farther out neighborhoods, like on the northwest side for the Hiawatha, somewhere around 35th/Archer for St. Louis...

Everything in Chicago is an uphill climb when it comes to sensible transit policies. That these transit agencies - who are all a part of the Regional Transportation Authority - have even cooperated this much is a minor miracle. Even stupid small stuff that seems obvious they can't get right. The...

Some added news for this, in what seems to be an unprecedented sense of cooperation between Chicago area transit agencies, there will be a $30 add-on for the monthly pass to include all CTA and Pace as well. $130/month for unlimited rides on the entire region's transit (except for South Shore...

Very cool. I visited there about 11 years ago, charming town.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Anyone been in Germany and used this yet? I'm wondering if it is easy to buy at the ticket machines in-country, especially at the airports. The site says they will be available at the ticket machines but sometimes reality doesn't match the intent. I don't like to use my phone for things like...

I've heard some people are wondering if the Northern Line may eventually rebrand as separate lines.

Northern Line extended by two stops last year. Bakerloo extension should be the next project they start. "Should" be.

They used to have a lot of commercials. I can't say that I've seen one myself in the last 20+ years. I have some memory of Jeter and/or A-Rod doing an Amtrak commercial in the 90s but I can't find it with a Google search so maybe I imagined it. I did smoke a lot of weed in those days...

Wow, hell of a savings if you are one of the people back to commuting on Metra. That's less than the A-B zone monthly pass.

Though I would say that the problem is worse for Atlanta than for most (maybe even any) metro areas. Georgia counties are so small they are second only to Texas for number of counties despite being the 24th largest state by geographic size. Metra in Chicago involves seven counties, if Atlanta...

Adding lanes doesn't help anyway. If 285 is a parking lot with 10 lanes it'll be a parking lot with 16 lanes too. It's insane there. My wife has to go for work next week and I've already told in no way should she take a cab from the airport, only Marta.

There is a very cool special issue about Crossrail by Modern Railways magazine. It's a British publication but you could find it in the U.S. if you have a specialty magazine shop in your area. I found it at a place in Chicago called City Newsstand. Great stuff in here, goes into the history of...

I hate when they don't use maps in articles like this.

Still ends up being a big help though, I missed the part before where it is good on S-Bahn, U-Bahn, trams and buses. 24-hour passes in Berlin and Munich cost about that much, so these are going to save us a ton of money on local transportation in Berlin and Munich alone. Heck, it's 12.30 Euro...

Temporal separation sounds like a time-space continuum problem in Star Trek. 🤣

Yeah, but if I remember correctly it is scheduled so that the light rail ends its day (I think earlier than it probably should) and the freight only runs at night. But I could be remembering that wrong. I think there were also some cumbersome standards for the light rail cars because of running...

Geoff Marshall has his opening day video up.

I of course bought my German rail tickets for this summer before this announcement was made...

I think the shorter travel time argument is still there, and still about 15 minutes difference. But I could see the express losing riders when you are able to take a one-seat ride on the Elizabeth from stations east of Paddington. And they'll eventually have more frequencies as well.