On AlterNet: trains

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "trains"

How Train Travel Could Make a Comeback

James McCommons, AlterNet. April 2, 2012.

Riding the rails has more advantages than just avoiding rising gas prices.

Why Do Conservatives Hate High-Speed Rail? 5 Reasons Right-Wingers Are Sabotaging Public Transportation Projects

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 22, 2011.

In addition to busting unions and gutting voting rights, Tea Party governors are refusing federal funding for high-speed rail. What do they have against it?

Vision: Rail Renaissance -- We May Be About to Take a Huge Step Toward Reviving Train Travel

James McCommons, AlterNet. February 11, 2011.

Obama's proposal to invest $8 billion annually is a gamechanger for passenger trains.

Vision: Ready or Not, Our Cheap Oil Economy Is Collapsing and We Need to Embrace High-Speed Rail

Scott Thill, AlterNet. January 24, 2011.

A conversation about high-speed rail's promise, fossil fuel's forsaken future and transforming our current nightmare of American transportation.

VISION: Can a New High-Speed Rail System Save the American Dream?

Scott Thill, AlterNet. January 22, 2011.

America is looking for answers and solutions, and it may have found a good one in the form of an ambitious national high-speed rail network.

Why the Economic Downturn Has Been Good News for Amtrak and the Future of Rail Travel

Jason Mark, AlterNet. June 23, 2009.

A slowing economy has resulted in speedier service for Amtrak trains, which is helping to make the case for more rail funding.

Map of Potential High-Speed Rail Built By the Stimulus

Staff, Huffington Post. February 18, 2009.

Which states will be getting high-speed rail?

Let's Get Get Those Freight Trucks Off the Road and Put America Back on Tracks

Philip Longman, Washington Monthly. January 13, 2009.

A nineteenth-century technology could be the solution to our twenty-first-century problems.