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You know, come to think of it, this might be what it's aimed at. According to the reporter, it would actually ban providing free drinks or newspapers. In that case it makes even less sense, because people are clearly paying extra for those things. Plus BC is only available on the Carolinian...

That's the ridiculous part. The NC DOT actually found a cheap way to run a cafe car, by providing vending machines for snacks and soda and providing water and free coffee from a coffee machine. Some state legislator heard from someone that they were providing free stuff and couldn't stand it...

Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't clear. To clarify for Acela150, they've been running an abbreviated schedule for 10 weeks. Monday through Thursday, they've only run one Carolinian and one Piedmont in each direction, eliminating the midday trains while crews performed track work. Thursday is supposed...

While Atlanta's MARTA doesn't go much of anywhere, it definitely does go to the airport. It's useful if you're going to a downtown hotel near the main line, but otherwise...not so useful.

They're switching back to three trains each way every day, as of Monday. For some reason the Piedmont schedule for next week isn't yet on the state's site either (bytrain.org). I would assume that it will be posted there first. But for what it's worth, the employees on the train seem to think...

And Scott still says that he trusts the gut feelings of Cox, O'Toole and the Reason Foundation over these projections. Even when they come from his own DOT. How can anyone seriously argue with someone who's so clearly made up his mind already?

Really? Even though there's no stop in Chapel Hill?

So you're saying that on an airplane, passengers would expect that if they buy both tickets, they'd only be allowed to sit in one?

Why would there be fuel shortages? So long as there aren't price controls in place, prices should rise as much as they need to and there won't be shortages.

I commute several times each week from DNC to GRO. Since I live less than ten minutes from the station and DNC is one where you just walk up to the tracks, I generally arrive ten minutes before scheduled departure and grab my tickets from the machine on the way to the train. Some days I'm a...

Well, they didn't perform a meta-analysis; they cited a meta-analysis that happens to agree with their conclusions without context. Context is kind of important here, and it's the difference between an analysis of this particular project and a gut feeling that an analysis is wrong. Again, you...

As others have also mentioned, the problem there is that Acela doesn't even carry half of the Amtrak passengers in the NEC. A quick googling gives me ridership numbers for October 2007, when NE Regional trains carried twice as many passengers as Acela trains. Not to mention the many commuter...

Here's what I don't understand. Why are people so eager to dump projects after lengthy planning and cost-benefit analyses because of gut feelings? You're certainly not the only one to do this, but why do you think your gut feeling should override the years of analysis up to this point? As I...

While these are the reasons the governor gave, they do have the drawback that the first two are false, and the third is irrelevant. Private companies bidding for the contract were actually willing to accept all responsibility for cost overruns. Of course, Scott didn't give the chance for them...