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I wish this had existed when I lived in Boston. My wife and I would have used it all the time since we went to Springfield all the time to see her family.

Yeah, getting conductors (guards) back on metro trains all around the country would be a good idea. Transit advocates here in Chicago are pushing for their return with the uptick in crime and other bad behavior on the trains. I always felt they never should have dropped them.

A great way to see the surrounding area but boy is it slow. I don't believe they have started any construction yet on the Yangon mass transit system, but I could be wrong. I'd be surprised to see any advancing of the project with all the political unrest there now.

I stand corrected. But both of those still aren't expansive systems that make a difference in having quality transportation systems. (Really surprising Manila's has had one line for 23 years and still no new ones)

Almost everyone has some sort of irrational fear.

Sprawl in America is something that car culture created, not something for transit to fix. We need to have more density in this country to make transit a viable option for more people and to stop the NIMBYs from fighting that kind of development. I'm curious if you had a choice where to live...

I had been interested in the same thing for a trip I was planning pre-COVID that got scrapped. Really infrequent trains and some missing connections. There was at least one place I think I would have had to walk across the border, and I think also making a connection involved an overnight stay...

Even if not one of the more important things that Amtrak needs to do better, it seems like it should be such an easy thing to do and would have a pretty good payoff from a customer experience point of view. I'll be returning to Germany in July (first international trip since COVID started) and...

I'll correct myself on one thing, Hanoi's first line opened last November, one line with 12 stations and 13 km long. Vietnam's first rapid transit "system."

The British ones are my favorite!

Really annoyed about that as well, especially since they drastically lowered the parking fee encouraging more driving and less transit.

The metro system built in Taipei transformed that city and really increased the air quality, people love it. I do think the statement made about people in SE Asia buying cars because they don't want to take transit are missing the fact that most of SE Asia has terrible public transit. There are...

Yep, that's her school.

Best headline I saw today about Lightfoot's gas card giveaway: Willie Wilson, Who Gave Away $1.2 Million in Gas, Calls Lightfoot's Gas Card Program ‘Political Stunt' I think you are right on about the ME frequencies, my daughter take it everyday to school at 51st-53rd. On days she has band...

Perennial candidate for whatever office he thinks he'd like to have, Senate, President, Mayor. I'm surprised he hasn't run for governor yet. In 2020 he was the surprise nominee of the Willie Wilson Party. Who saw that coming? 🤣 Better frequencies would increase Metra's ridership, cutting...

OV-chipkarte is so great! So easy to use.

I didn't know where to post this, but this seems like the right forum. I'm surprised it wasn't here yet. For those of you that read it, Jim Wrinn, editor of Trains for the last 17 years, died today at the age of 61 after a battle with pancreatic cancer...

Lusty Lady had the best lines on their marquee back in the day when I lived in Seattle. They were always puns of some saying or movie title to make them about ***. The Loin King was one I remember back when Lion King was the big movie. Happy Nude Year showed up on new year's eve/day, and I think...

You'd think they could have managed to build Amtrak as awesome as they did the pyramids. :p

Charlie Card is definitely a good name. I do like Seattle's Orca as well.