Greenwich Free Press (https://greenwichfreepress.com/category/opinion/page/18/)
This labor unrest comes as the MTA admits it paid $1.3 billion in overtime last year. About 1100 of its employees doubled their salaries with OT. There are mechanics and MTA cops taking home over $300,000 due to extra duty. Under their contracts, available overtime must first be offered to the most senior (and highest paid) staffers so those veterans, closest to retirement, are raking it in. Continue Reading →
A new CT Public Transportation Council, represents both rail and bus riders – a near impossible task given the state’s geography and, as in the past, a lack of any funding to do their work. Continue Reading →
Francis Clifford Smith was arrested in 1949 and convicted of murdering Grover Hart in the dining room of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.
” The fact that something like this happened in Greenwich should outrage every single one of us.” – Zachary Frey Continue Reading →
If you’re looking for family fun this summer, consider visiting one of Connecticut’s many living museums celebrating our state’s rail heritage. The Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven (www.shorelinetrolley.com) was founded in 1945 and now boasts more than one hundred trolley cars in its collection. It’s on the National Registry of Historic Places and is the oldest continuously operating trolley line in the US, still running excursion trolleys for a three-mile run on tracks once used by The Connecticut Company for its “F Line” from New Haven to Branford. You can also walk through the car barns and watch volunteers painstakingly restoring the old cars. There’s also a small museum exhibit and gift shop. Continue Reading →
It’s hard to believe but this summer marks ten years since the billionaire inventor first unveiled the idea for passenger pods riding like maglev trains inside giant tubes in a near vacuum. So it’s time to see how his vision of this super-fast transportation system is coming along. Spoiler alert: it’s not doing so great. Continue Reading →
Full disclosure: I’m one of those who signed up and so far the test has run seamlessly while providing me with great metrics on how many miles I’ve driven, how much CT gasoline tax I’ve paid and what the pricing might have been under a Vehicle Miles Tax. Turns out my hybrid Toyota Prius would pay less under a VMT plan than pay a gas tax. The trial runs through October. – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
As summer arrives I’m reminded of one of Metro-North’s greatest “fails” of all time, recounted in this column I wrote days after it happened…
Friday July 22, 2011 was the hottest day I can ever remember. The pavement in Manhattan was 147 degrees Continue Reading →
“Guess what CT Dept of Transportation is about to undertake? That’s right… a study of Vehicle Miles Tax.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
Looking for a career in transportation with good pay, incredible job security, free room and board and a chance to “sea” the world? Check out the US Merchant Marine. Continue Reading →
Family will receive friends on Monday, June 19 from 5:00 – 7:00pm at the Coxe and Graziano Funeral Home 134 Hamilton Ave, Greenwich, Ct. A mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Roch’s on Tuesday, June 20 at 10:00am followed by interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Continue Reading →