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...airline food, regardless of the quality, used to cost passengers nothing. In a 2009 Zagat airline survey, only 19% of respondents said they would be willing to pay for snacks on domestic flights. George Hobica of Airfarewatchdog shares their reluctance. "I went on Amtrak's Acela train and had this lime mousse that was so good, I tried to make it at home," he says. "If they can do it well, why can't airlines...
...Bobb, emergency financial manager for the Detroit public schools, draws one-third of his $425,000 salary from an alliance of philanthropies led by the Eli Broad Foundation. And if all goes according to plan, Detroit will break ground this year on a trolley line connecting downtown with an Amtrak station 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north. The project's seed money is a $35 million grant from Kresge...
...what might be the first time ever, says Fred Beuttler, the House's deputy historian, the chamber's cafeteria was forced to close. Major hearings on Capitol Hill were postponed, including a congressional probe on Toyota's slew of safety recalls. Flights at Washington-area airports were grounded, Amtrak service was severely curtailed, schools were closed and mail service was suspended. Even plows were ordered off the icy roads in Washington's Maryland suburbs after administrators determined that snow removal was too treacherous a chore. (See TIME's photo-essay "Snowpocalypse, Part...
Today you can travel the 250 miles from Paris to Lyon on the high-speed TGV in two hours. Covering a similar distance from Philadelphia to Boston takes some five hours, and that's on an Amtrak Acela train, the closest thing the U.S. has to high-speed rail. "Every other major industrialized nation has recognized that high-speed rail is key to economic growth and mobility," says Petra Todorovich, director of the America 2050 program at the Regional Planning Association. "It's time for America to realize that as well." (See the most important cars of all time...
...represents the kind of long-term infrastructure investment that will pay back for decades, just as the interstate highway system of the 1950s has. "This is a down payment on a truly national program," said Biden, who has logged more than 7,900 round trips of his own on Amtrak. "It will change the way we travel and change the way we work and live." Greens will be happy to see that...