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Unemployment in Spain is at 27% and that means the whole country is struggling, especially under the weight of cruel, damaging, and entirely unnecessary austerity measures forced on the nation by external powers. In that situation it’s no surprise that Spain’s AVE high speed trains saw a dip in ridership in 2012. But it may [...]
Thomas Elias is usually a very good observer of California politics. For example, I love how he slams Joseph Vranich in his latest column on high speed rail: Vranich regularly denigrates most things California as he helps businesses depart, so the Reason report’s pessimistic claims can be taken with a grain of salt. That’s a [...]
The Expo Line has only been open for a year, is only halfway complete on its journey from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica, and yet it’s already seeing significant ridership growth. Neon Tommy has the story: Ridership on weekdays has been increasing at a steady clip of about 1,000 per month, reaching an estimated [...]
At some point it should become screamingly clear to the American news media that people love passenger trains and will ride them regularly if only given a chance. The latest record-setting Amtrak ridership stats tell the story: Amtrak ridership increased in the first half of FY 2013 (Oct. 2012 – March 2013) and March set [...]
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