Talking Transportation: The DMV Is Judging You
Six characters may not seem dangerous, but in the wrong order your choice of vanity plates may pose a serious threat to public morality. Or so says the DMV.
Jim Cameron's Latest Articles
Talking Transportation: Snow, Salt and Unplugged Promises
Columnist Jim Cameron, calling snowstorms a test of Connecticut’s transportation system, gives high marks for highway clearing while faulting local streets and rail platforms.
Talking Transportation: Winter Travel Tips to Beat Cold, Snow – and Connecticut’s Roads and Rails
Jim Cameron delivers helpful tips, fun facts and one piece of particularly timely advice: Sometimes the smartest winter travel decision is not traveling at all.
Talking Transportation: Big Brother, Facial Recognition and AI
The future is here, and it's shopping with us. Jim Cameron takes a skeptical look at where convenience ends and surveillance begins.
Talking Transportation: Strawberries in January and Other Climate Impacts
How fruit and vegetables make their way to our supermarkets is not only a tale of botany, but of logistics and long-distance transportation at some cost to our environment.
Talking Transportation: Who’s Running This Railroad?
Jim Cameron explains "the bizarre patchwork of ownership and responsibility" that makes the state’s railroads possible.
Talking Transportation: Best of 2025
Columnist Jim Cameron shares his five most widely read columns from 2025 for readers to re-enjoy – or fume over.
Talking Transportation: Happy Birthday to I-84
Last week marked yet another birthday for Interstate 84 in Connecticut, first opened on December 16, 1961, a milestone that deserves candles, cake, and perhaps a moment of silence for every commuter who has ever thought, “How is this highway still not finished?”
Talking Transportation: Ticket Turmoil on Metro-North
Jim Cameron laments confusion and frustration wrought by Metro-North ticketing changes.
Talking Transportation: EV vs. Gas – The Real Cost
Jim Cameron explores how the Trump White House is changing the cost of citizens' driving commutes.