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...wants to drive when you can watch movies and play with your computer?" asks Joe Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who specializes in urban planning and transportation. He recently published a study on intercity U.S. bus travel that showed a nearly 10% jump from 2007 to '08. "As Amtrak and the airlines have struggled with incorporating wireless, we think that's a big part of why it's suddenly cool to jump on the bus," he says...
...while the U.S. probably can't re-create the charming ride from Paris to Lyon, it also can't keep treating rail like a loathsome relic. Since World War II, the U.S. has poured almost $2 trillion into highway and aviation systems, while passenger rail - like the wheezing federal Amtrak line - has received less than 3% of Washington's transportation dollars. Obama argues that the U.S. needs, economically and environmentally, a rail revival in order to relieve stressed auto and air infrastructure. That means emulating the long-established high-speed (more than 110 m.p.h., or 177 km/h) passenger-rail systems...
...master’s degree. When he graduated that spring, they continued to see each other long-distance. Kumar made frequent trips to New Haven, where Aggarwal is now conducting a residency at Yale to become a psychiatrist. “I should be the Greyhound or the Amtrak brand ambassador,” Kumar said. This spring, with Kumar’s friends gathered at Small Plates for tea, Aggarwal proposed—though Kumar will have to wait until the official engagement ceremony on June 7 for a ring. While most undergraduates still tremble at the idea...
Train Deals. Amtrak is offering 25% off fares in the Northeast U.S. until September. Now you can travel from Washington, D.C., or Boston to New York City for $49. From Philly to Washington, it's just $33. Fares are good from June 2 to Sept. 3; reservations must be made two weeks in advance...
Maybe the Pennsylvania Senator knew he was bound to wind up on the other side of the aisle eventually. Democrats - including Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he had shared many a ride on Amtrak when they were both commuting Senators - had been wooing him for years. Specter, 79, had been a Democrat until 1965. But when his latest turnabout finally happened, it caught the entire capital by surprise and altered everyone's calculation of what is now possible. Assuming that the interminable Minnesota recount battle finally ends with Al Franken being awarded the Senate seat - he holds...