Volume 8, Number 20
From the Editors…
The President of the United States laid down the challenge, and we at This Week will attempt to answer the question, Where would we be without the national highway network?
William Lindley of Scottsdale, Arizona has penned a Business and Politics guest column. Enjoy his insights. Read more…
Here in the South, we take our railroads as seriously as anyone along the Northeast Corridor, we just do it with our own money instead of constant raids on the federal treasury.
Ah, the agony and tragedy which has befallen California, the golden state.
The following is the luncheon address by Stan Feinsod from Railway Age magazine’s Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads conference of October 24, 2011.
Volume 8, Number 19
From the Editors…
To say that these are interesting times for passenger railroading in America would be a gross understatement. Significant changes to the forty year status quo are afoot. The following discourse by Stan Feinsod at this year’s Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads conference outlines a future, not of political hubris, but of practical possibilities. Mr. Feinsod has over thirty years of diverse passenger rail expertise as a transit contracting specialist and project development and management, planning and engineering, operations and even streetcar specialties. In his distinguished career he has worked for numerous agencies such as NJ Transit, Veolia, Connex and now Ratp Dev. And now, Mr. Feinsod in his own words [abridged for space].
Election day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 is exactly a year – 365 days – away (Presidential election years are always leap years, with February having 29 days; hence a full year from November 7, 2011.). If you think all things are political now, well, you haven’t seen anything, yet.
