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What Amish Country Can Teach us About The Future of Rail

Driving down the idyllic rural roads of Lancaster County, you’ll likely catch a glimpse of a horse and buggy tottering along a cornfield. It’s a tourist attraction in its own right, a window into how nearly 45,000 Amish neighbors live.

But...

7 days ago
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The Fault in Our Trains: Is the CAHSR Dream Dying in the San Gabriel Mountains?

Look, I promise I’m still working on the multi-part series about how California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) went “off the rails.” It’s honestly been one of the toughest pieces to write because it isn’t just about trains, it’s a case study in wh...

2 months ago
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Why the DC Streetcar Deserved its End

After barely a decade in operation, the DC Streetcar has finally reached the end of the line, officially closing this March. Good riddance. As a lifelong transit advocate, it feels counterintuitive to celebrate a system’s demise, but we hav...

3 months ago
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The Lost BART of the Midwest: Detroit’s 1974 Radical Transit Dream

A trip to a conference in Detroit back in 2016 changed the trajectory of my life. I was a sophomore in college, broke, and incredibly “green.” My first boss, Peter, saw something in me amongst a sea of established professionals and took a c...

3 months ago
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Why the Northstar was not our North Star: A Tale of a Rail Line Doomed to Fail

Minnesota’s Northstar is officially dead. While advocates mourn the loss, we have to face the hard truth: we built a park and ride train for a 9-to-5 world that no longer exists.

Building good transit is an almost foolproof science. It’s s...

4 months ago
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