“It should have been done by now.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: The Hudson Tunnels
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Opinion
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TALKING TRANSPORTATION: Surviving a Train Crash
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When rescue workers found her, unconscious, she’d been thrown from the train. Others were crushed inside the cars. Eight were killed and 200 injured, 11 critically. Ironically the engineer, later charged in the crash, walked away with just a few bumps and bruises. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Amtrak 188, Boneby Bone, Geralyn Rigger, Jim Cameron
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: A Fitting Welcome to Connecticut?
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First impressions do count. And the first impressions we give visitors to our state aren’t as positive as they should be, are they? Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Jim Cameron, Talking Transportation
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: Keep the Reader Feedback Coming
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“By far the biggest response in recent months was to my column “Metro-North’s Hypocrisy Unmasked” in which I questioned the railroad’s taking hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the federal government but its apparent refusal to enforce federal, and now its own, mask rules. Those CDC and TSA guidelines have since been lifted, but remain on the books of the MTA.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: Why do trains have names?
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Back in the day you didn’t just take “a train,” you traveled on The 20th Century Limited or the Broadway Limited (named not for the street but the Pennsylvania Railroad’s four-track wide right-of-way). Today, trains just have a number. Or a departure time. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Jim Cameron, Talking Transportation
Talking Transportation: Promoting Marijuana Tourism in Connecticut
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“When recreational sales of cannabis finally come to Connecticut, so too will the tourists and fresh tax revenues for the towns and cities permitting such sales.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, cannabis, Cannabis in Connecticut, Jim Cameron
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: Shore Line East Lacks Passengers Despite Quieter Cleaner M8 Cars
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There’s been a lot of buzz in the past week about Shore Line East finally adding M8 cars to its service. While this is good news, the railroad’s future is not bright. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, commuter traffic, gas prices, I95, Jim Cameron, M8 cars, Shore Line East
Meskers: Putting Memorial Day in Context
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“The first observance of what would become Memorial Day, some historians think, took place in Charleston, S.C., at the site of a horse racing track that Confederates had turned into a prison holding Union prisoners. Blacks in the city organized a burial of deceased Union prisoners and built a fence around the site.” – Steve Meskers Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Memorial Day, Steve Meskers
Kindness, Above All Things
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I recently conversed with a veteran teacher at a local school who said that she used to receive 30-40 handwritten thank you notes from students and teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week. This year, she received one such note. When I recently held the door at Dunkin Donuts for a young man, he exclaimed, “Thank you! People don’t seem to do that to one another these days!” Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion
TALKING TRANSPORTATION: One Million Deaths
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“I had COVID last week. After more than two years of hand washing, wearing masks and avoiding crowds, I guess it was my turn. Fortunately, being double vaxed and double boosted, it was a relatively mild case and my recovery was hastened by antiviral pills from Pfizer.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →