The New York Times' Matthew Wald reports that Congress plans to double the billion-dollar annual subsidy given to Amtrak, the public-private train company. Another $1.5 billion will be given to high-speed rail service.

With gas prices still astronomical, Amtrak has enjoyed something of a renaissance this year. It was dampened, ...

"We're learning as we go" is what Patti Reilly, a spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads, said about the railroad industry installing security systems to prevent rail accidents like the one that killed 25 people in suburban Los Angeles on September 12.  This gem comes from the ...

Congress is in session for only three or four more weeks until the November election. The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Conkey says that means it's down to the wire for mass transit funding. One of the Senate energy bills currently up for debate would ...

The Washington Post's Ben Pershing reports that Amtrak advocates love Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as Democratic VP candidate. Besides it being noted in every single Biden bio that he rides Amtrak home to his family in Delaware every night, Biden's also the co-sponsor for ...

The House Transportation Committee accused the Federal Aviation Administration this spring of being too cozy with industry. But FAA seems in a fighting mood when it comes to assessing fines. The Washington Post's Joan Lowy reports that the aviation agency has fined American Airlines $7.1 million for flying a ...

The New York Times' Matthew Wald and James C. McKinley, Jr. have discovered something disconcerting: bus companies that the federal govt. bans for safety reasons can, and have, registered under different names. In fact  a bus that crashed and killed 17 in Texas last Friday was operated by Angel ...

The Times is right on track today in their editorial for more Amtrak funding. A pending bill would double the public-private rail service's federal funding from its current $1.2 billion. But the bill is being held up by Republicans who want to use ...

The Wall Street Journal's Andy Pasztor and Christopher Conkey show little mercy to the Federal Aviation Administration in a A1 piece blasting the aviation agency's bureaucratic failures. FAA hasn't forced the airline industry to make a safer refueling tanker-- 12 years after ...

The Wall Street Journal’s headline this morning “Special Counsel Has Hands Full With FAA” sets off alarm bells that reporter Christopher Conkey fails to quiet. Conkey plays it straight, explaining the independent Office of Special Counsel’s ambitious investigation into 32 ...

Perpetually soaring gas prices are awful for the country, but they have increased attention toward improving Amtrak. The Associated Press reports that yesterday the House passed a bill giving $15 billion to the national rail service, which is under the Dept. of Transportation. Amtrak is historically a poor ...