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Cameron on Trains 2021

Cameron on Rails 2021
Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Joe Guilietti

Speed Past Construction on I-95? A State Camera May Get You Ticketed: A Talk with the Transportation Commissioner

By JIM CAMERON | December 6, 2021
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Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Joe Guilietti has a holiday gift for rail commuters — and maybe a lump of coal for the stockings for highway speeders. Once a year I get a sit-down with the commissioner. We’ve known each other for many years since his days as president of Metro-North. He knows I always ask him the tough questions but once told me “You’re always fair, Jim”, a comment that brought a tear to my eye. So when I asked him when train service was going to get faster, he didn’t blink — or over-promise.

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The World is Changing Pretty Abruptly, and Transportation Issues Along With It

By JIM CAMERON | November 22, 2021
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Don’t look now, but we’re making history. The changing forces now at work in our society, including our transportation network, will have a profound effect on our lives for decades to come. THE BIG QUIT: According to federal statistics, 4 million people quit their jobs in July of this year, with almost 11 million jobs nationwide now unfilled. As a result, our ports are jammed, the supply chain broken and holiday purchases seem in peril. Don’t expect any bargains for Christmas.

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Fall leaves train tracks slippery when wet

How Metro North Tries to Keep Trains from Sliding as Leaves Fall on the Tracks: Talking Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | November 15, 2021
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It sounds like a question on a kid’s quiz show: “How do you stop a train?” A) Hail it like a cab? B) Pull the emergency brake? C) Put wet leaves on the track? If you chose “C”, you were correct … and you must be a regular commuter on Metro-North. This is the time of year that tries train engineers’ souls and commuters’ patience.

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You Can Still Ride the World’s First Cog Railway in New Hampshire: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | August 23, 2021
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New England is home to many railroad “firsts,” but none is more impressive than the Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world’s first cog rail line. And it’s still running, at a profit, 152 years late, using some of the original equipment. Unlike most railroads, “The Cog” doesn’t pull its coaches along a relatively flat line with flanged wheels on two parallel tracks. A cog railroad’s locomotive directly connects its gears to a center rack of iron teeth, pushing the train up the mountain very slowly, but surely. On a normal railroad the train can handle a 2% grade (or climb) at best.

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Lots of Work Needed to Keep the New Haven Line Running: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | July 12, 2021
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In 1955 a New Haven Railroad commuter train could run non-stop for the 36-mile distance from Stamford to Grand Central in 48 minutes. Today that Stamford-to-NYC run takes 59 minutes at best, despite Governor Lamont’s long-promised dream of a 30-minute trip time. But now there’s a new effort to speed up the New Haven line: CDOT’s ambitious “Time for CT” $8-to-10-billion plan. It promises 10-minute faster running times from New Haven to New York City by next year and a 25-minute quicker run by 2035. While some dream of a new high speed rail system running from Washington to Boston at 200+ mph speeds, CDOT and Metro-North are taking, in my view, a much more realistic approach to fixing our existing system.

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Metro-North Plays With COVID-19 Disinfecting But Won’t Enforce Mask Rules: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | May 16, 2021
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Is it safe to get back on the train to New York? Casey (not her real name) thought so when, a couple of weekends back, she wanted to see some millennial friends in Manhattan for brunch. But boarding the Saturday morning train she immediately started to worry and texted me. The train was jammed, she said. Very few empty seats.

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Connecticut Has Freight Railroads, and We Need to Invest in Them: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | May 2, 2021
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How would you like a plan to remove thousands of trucks from Connecticut
highways, clean up the air and create new jobs? Who wouldn’t? It’s a win-win-win plan that you’d expect Governor Lamont to
embrace, especially in this time of TCI (the Transportation Climate Initiative). The solution? Invest in our state’s freight railroads.

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Here’s What Metro-North Customers Say Would Keep Them Riding (in an Unscientific Survey): Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | March 21, 2021
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How are we going to get riders back on the trains and save Metro-North from ballooning deficits, potential service cuts or fare hikes? That’s the question I crowd-sourced on social media last week and found dozens of great answers! Most respondents said they won’t be commuting as much as before because they will continue working from home. It’s not that they are shunning the rails out of fear, just that commuting won’t be necessary. “Most of us have figured out how to work without riding a train every day,” one rider opined.

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Vastly Inflated Construction Costs Are No Way to Run a Railroad: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | February 8, 2021
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Why is transportation construction so expensive in our area? What kind of honor was it when New York City recently surpassed Zurich (one of the most expensive cities in the world) as No. 1 on the most-expensive-place-to-do-underground-construction dishonor roll? The highly respected Regional Plan Association has studied that question and offers some explanations and frightening examples. Focusing on three recent MTA mega-projects in New York City — the Second Avenue Subway, the No.

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SCMAGLEV at Yamanashi Maglev Line Facility in Japan

If Maglev Trains Come Here Your Commute Could Be Very Quick — or Very Far: Cameron on Transportation

By JIM CAMERON | January 27, 2021
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Imagine going from New York City to Washington, D.C. in one hour — not by plane, but by maglev. By comparison, today the same trip from the LaGuardia to DC’s Reagan airport takes about 90 minutes by air (not counting getting to and from the airports) and costs $276 one way. On Amtrak’s Acela, the fastest run, downtown to downtown, is three hours and costs $157. Or you could take the bus for $30, assuming you have 4½ hours to waste. A maglev is a train, of sorts, that floats on a cushion of air, suspended and propelled along a special track quite different from conventional railroads.

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