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NOW MUMBAI (Bombay's new name) joins London, Madrid and Tokyo as cities with the worst terrorist attacks against train passengers. It could happen here aboard NJ Transit and Amtrak trains. [...]

Byline: Joseph Vranich Michael S. Dukakis, in supporting Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential aspirations, has criticized the Bush administration's failure to fill vacancies on Amtrak's board of directors, saying, "You […]

Amtrak ridership surged upward in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and a lingering fear of flying gives the government-subsidized railroad a chance to retain some new customers. [...]

The article discusses how the California High-Speed Rail Authority uses questionable figures about transportation costs to rebut a finding of the California High Speed Rail Peer Review Group that a proposed high-speed rail project connecting the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco would represent a large financial risk to the state.

Comments on criticisms from David Gunn, president of the National Railroad Passenger Corp., against the claim of U.S. Transportation Department secretary Norman Mineta that the railroad system of the country should become more cost-efficient.