by Ned S. Levi | Oct 7, 2013
Train travel is an important and highly useful mode of transportation in the US and abroad. Intracity and intercity train travel is often better than cars, buses and planes city-to-city travel. In Europe and Asia, high-speed rail often outperforms all other modes of...
by Jim Loomis | Jan 21, 2012
Back in the mid-90s, I was working on a book about train travel and had spent time interviewing Amtrak’s on board crews during my many cross-country train trips – conductors and train attendants and dining car staffs. But the one crew member I hadn’t been able to...
by Ned S. Levi | Apr 11, 2011
If you’ve been following my columns over the last few years, you would have concluded that I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the U.S. national passenger rail carrier, Amtrak. I ride the rails in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and elsewhere in their...
by Janice Hough | Sep 14, 2010
For years, many travelers wouldn’t consider an electronic ticket if there was a paper alternative, now, they are so reliant on ticketless travel that they make a lot of mistakes. The same with maps and GPSs. My client, who shall remain nameless, travels...
by Charlie Leocha | Jun 13, 2010
This weekend, we serve up three videos ranging from a humorous look at how the Boston Globe is planning to cope with the changing landscape of print media to an unusual look at a groundbreaking work of art in San Francisco and then to Peter Greenberg telling us about...
