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Talking Transportation: Shore Line East Left Behind Again

Shore Line East is at risk of becoming a case study in how to discourage ridership. Is it any surprise that locals refer to the southeast part of our state as “Connecticut’s forgotten corner”?

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Talking Transportation: From Hartford to New York City by Night Boat

Two centuries ago, travelers from Hartford to New York relied on riverboats rather than highways or trains. It was a slow but scenic journey down the Connecticut River.

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.

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?”