The tourists are coming to Washington, D.C., and despite the recession I can imagine numbers will be high. Once you’re here and housed, it is a remarkably cheap place to visit with the leading destinations free to the public.
So I have a request of local residents and recent visitors: what would you recommend to other [...]
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Making do with Mennonites
I haven’t been blogging since Hubby and I took a vacation this week to Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Ah! the food! Chow-chow, kraut, apple dumplings . . . and more meat than I’ve eaten in the last six months.
But people are drawn there also for watching the plain people — a distasteful act, I think, [...]
Good riddance to HIV travel, immigration ban
The ban on persons with HIV to travel and immigrate to the United States — a legacy of fear and the late Senator Helms’s power — seems to have died. This long-overdue piece of legislation has passed the Senate and now, likely to avoid conference, goes to the President’s desk. A good piece of news [...]
Rail happy!
House Resolution 6003 “To reauthorize Amtrak, and for other purposes” has passed the House. Since the Senate already passed an Amtrak resolution, does this mean it’s bound for conference? I’m too zonked to think straight, but I know I want this to be made law. (The President threatens a veto, but I don’t think he [...]
Universalists on a train!
After the jump, see a set of pictures of Universalists on their 1915 “California Pilgrimage” to General Convention, held that year in Pasadena. I mentioned it in a comment tonight and wrote about it three years ago.
You may now download this short book at Google Books. Note the Temple at Salt Lake City in the [...]
General Assembly by rail
I know I don’t need to recap the situation about gasoline or air travel. Just groan among yourselves.
But I did notice that the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly this year and for the next three years are in cities with Amtrak service.
2008 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2009 Salt Lake City, UT
2010 Minneapolis, MN
2011 Charlotte, NC
I’m already thinking [...]
Higher oil, fewer flights
Last week, USA Today delivered a colorful map visualization — of course they did — about the changes in domestic air service spurred by the increasing price of oil. Colors points out who are getting flights (New Orleans is a winner; a rebound?) and the larger number of losers. Mouse-over the states to get details [...]
A vision for U.S. passenger rail
With gasoline within sneezing distance of a United States average of $4 a gallon and continuing airline cutbacks and failures, let me return to domestic passenger rail.
I was looking at a list of Metropolitan Statistical Areas — this is what led me to the Micropolitan areas I mentioned last week — because the National Association [...]
More on FOSS for transit
I put my last post on free and open source software for transit systems out as a lifeboat, thinking it would bob on the waves of the Internet until someone — far from now — might read the post and wonder. I didn’t think I’d get a reply so quickly.
So I’ve looked further for options.
I [...]
Help needed: Passenger rail advocacy
Do you know of a good organization (a c3 or an advocacy c4) — in addition to the National Association of Railroad Passengers — that advocates for increased passenger rail service in the United States? Especially state initiatives. Thoughtful blogs are welcome, too.
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