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Sunday Train: Hobbling & Liberating Renewables with Markets
A concept that has been percolating into debates over the feasibility or desirability of moving to an all-renewables, no/low carbon energy supply system is the ceiling on what percentage share of our...
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Sunday Train: First California HSR Service to connect Bay & San Joaquin Valley
A mock-up of a possible California HS Train designHey, long time no see!The Sunday Train was on hiatus during the Chinese Fall Semester, as I had four sections to teach four hours a week with two new...
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Sunday Train: Washington State Labor Council support Steel Interstate...
Sunday Train has long supported the Steel Interstateconcept … but Sunday Train is “merely” an online activity composed of my online blogging in various forums and your discussion in various...
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Sunday Train: Adventures on the Beijing Subway
I have ridden the Beijing Subway and lived to tell the tale!YouTube VideoOf course, the youtube clips you might be able to find about incredible overcrowding on the Beijing subway is just part of the...
View ArticleSunday Train: Rapid Passenger Rail moving ahead
As you are probably well aware, the US Government is gridlocked, which means that for years and years, nothing has been getting done.However, because of the appropriations for "High Speed Rail" in 2009...
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Sunday Train: A Cycle Track In Downtown Akron
This past Thursday, thanks to twitter, I learned that just one county to my west, a Cycle Track was being opened: Akron opens new bike trail through downtown:The path is part of the city’s effort to...
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Sunday Train: Sleeping On A Trip, In Transit
Patent application for the original Slumbercoach, passenger capacity halfway between coach and traditional sleepersWell, as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay ... and so when...
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Sunday Train: Going to Tianjin by Subway and High Speed Rail
OK, so after years of (off and on) writing about High Speed Rail, I've finally been on a High Speed Rail train ... on the Beijing - Tianjin Intercity Railway.Though I have to say that I went to Tianjin...
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Sunday Train: An Ohio Universities Rail System, Part 1 (Southern & Central Ohio)
Well, the 2016 High Speed Rail unlock has been postponed to 2018 or 2020.When transportation policy at the Federal level is grabbed with both hands by the Oil and Gas death lobby, we have to turn to...
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Sunday Train: Is Cuomo Dragging His Feet on the Empire Rapid Rail Corridor?
It's been two and a half years since I started working full time for my University here in Beijing, and in that time, the frequency of the Sunday Train dropped from once a week a week with only the...
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Sunday Train: The Steel Interstate & Sustainable Transport in the Age of Trump
So, we are two weeks into the Trump administration, and we see a runaway rush to promote economic suicide through pandering to oil and coal companies. Because, it would seem, the slogan was really...
View ArticleStefan Rahmstorf: "West Antarctic has probably crossed its tipping point and...
Stefan Rahmstorf is a leading climate scientist whom I greatly admire and respect. I have frequently read his writings at realclimate.org for many, many years. Here is a brief summary of his...
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