Judge Lewis J. Liman of the Southern District of New York has been busy lately, deciding cases about the new Congestion Pricing toll that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been collecting
There was a legal maxim in England during the Middle Ages that “The King can do no wrong.” That ancient doctrine has come down to us today as the concept of “Sovereign
Amtrak is now repairing the East River Tunnels between New York Penn Station and Queens, as we have been reporting. That project has brought service reductions, including on the Empire Service trains
One of the basic principles of legal or historical research is to locate source documents: those which contain the words from the original proponents of an idea or a program, and which
After the first of four weeks of temporary schedules on New Jersey Transit’s (NJT’s) rail lines due to the cutover from the old Portal Bridge to the new Portal North Bridge over
Rail transit lines and transit railroads are being extended in almost every region of the United States and Canada. This phenomenon was common in past decades, but not anymore. Still, there are
As I reported on Aug. 27, 2025, Andy Byford, New York’s beloved “Train Daddy,” is back in town. He earned his local fame (which enhanced his already global reputation on the rail
Even though the Congestion Pricing toll now being collected when vehicles enter the CRZ (Congestion Relief Zone) south of 60th Street in Manhattan is a local initiative, few topics on the transportation
Changes will be coming to train schedules on New Jersey Transit (NJT) during the second half of February and the first half of March, as the agency and Amtrak prepare for the
AmeriStarRail (ASR), through Chief Operating Officer Scott R. Spencer, has proposed a new fleet for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, the latest of several proposals that ASR has made recently. Spencer has already suggested
