Talking Transportation: A Rumble Mumble Grumble
As one Connecticut mayor pushes back against plans for centerline rumble strips, columnist Jim Cameron weighs the safety benefits against noise concerns.
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Talking Transportation: What Happens When Gasoline Costs $10 a Gallon?
Columnist Jim Cameron revisits predictions made almost 20 years ago to see how they've held up.
Talking Transportation: The Museum That Owns a Railroad
The museum made its first passenger runs in 1996. It will celebrate with special excursions on Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept. 27.
Talking Transportation: The For-Profit Railroad
Should Connecticut’s commuter railroads be privatized?
Talking Transportation: The Traffic Calming Illusion
Why do we speed through other neighborhoods but demand calm in our own? Jim surveys the engineering tricks used to enforce what signs alone can't.
Talking Transportation: The High-Speed Railroad Never Built … 120 Years Ago
A 10-hour trip between Chicago and New York seemed brilliant in 1905. But when money ran out, the railroad never made it out of Indiana.
Talking Transportation: Is it Time to Tax Electric Vehicles?
The hypothetical “average driver” in CT pays about $209 a year in gas tax while EV drivers pay nothing, according to Jim Cameron. Is that fair?
Talking Transportation: P.T. Barnum’s Bridgeport Was No Circus
Barnum’s genius wasn’t just in filling circus tents. The showman and Bridgeport mayor also understood logistics: how to move goods, people and opportunity efficiently.
Talking Transportation: Hot & Bothered – Summer’s Transportation Meltdown
Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are disrupting trains, planes and roads, revealing how vulnerable Connecticut’s transportation systems are to increasingly severe summer conditions.
Talking Transportation: Airlines’ Windowless Window Seats
A pair of lawsuits, one of which got the go-ahead to proceed last week, claim passengers were duped when they paid for window seats and ended up with no windows.