I mentioned a few weeks ago that one group sees the future of travel belonging to rail, not airlines. In their vision, freight and passengers will use trains instead of planes but as I mentioned in that post, much of what they say may be true for everywhere except in America. But is that changing?…
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Will Rail Travel Really Surpass Air Travel?
I like talking about futuristic travel which is why I wrote about it here and here and here. Now comes this study by ARUP, the UK-based international engineering and consulting firm, examining train travel in the year 2050. It is hard to deny some of their projections like 75% of the world’s population of 9.5…
BAcon — I’m Trying to Get to You, Really I Am!
My trek to Colorado Springs for Boarding Area’s BAcon conference is going to be an interesting case of planes, trains and automobiles. Wideroe, a regional airline in Norway and the largest regional airline in the Nordic countries, went on strike today. The strike is expected to continue for the next day or two. (This just happens…
