Matt Yglesias

28 Responses to “President SUPERTRAIN”

1. Don Williams Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   I bet Obama is only taking the train from Philly because the engineer let him blow the whistle pulling out of 30th Street Station when he was here a few months ago.

   Unfortunately, Amtrak doesn’t include that in its amenities.

2. Gene Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   Just out of curiosity Matt, other than riding between NY-Boston or NY-Washington, what other routes in the USA have you travelled by train? What routes in western Europe? What routes outside western Europe?

   Because while I like trains and mass transit just fine and had the mixed pleasure of using them daily for years, your posts on the topic are increasingly like candles burned at the altar of Our Blessed Sainted Holy Mother of the Trains and Mass Transit.

3. Gabriel Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   It’s like a campaign trip, only…wait. Why are they doing this again? Amtrak awareness?

4. wiley Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   I’ll burn candles at the altar of Our Blessed Sainted Holy Mother of the Trains and Mass Transit if it will get a fast train built from Salem to Portland Oregon. I’d burn one for Amtrak, too.

   I get excited about trains. And jobs. And fewer cars clogging up the world. And less pollution.

5. bdbd Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

   I hope the President-elect will put a big sharpie signature on the wall of the toilet of the Acela he travels on! Biden too — I’ll miss seeing him on the train. What the point of being President and VP if you can’t do stuff like that!

6. scott Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

   I too will burn said candles. I like getting places with less hassle, and I will, and have paid for it.

7. Robert Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

   I’m quite pleased with Obama’s move here, but was surprised to see the Daily Beast’s take on it. They thought Obama was hubristically drawing an allusion between himself and Lincoln. I suppose that’s a (cloyingly passe, sentimental) part of the meaning of this gesture, but there is a real practical reason to do this: to give symbolic support to mass transit, an aspect of a new and more inter-connected energy future Obama considers his top priority. Why wouldn’t he do this?

8. Kolohe Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

   I would think the President of the United States embarking on a train (the acela? private charter?) is sort of incompatibile with ‘virtuous crowded transit’ from the previous post. Just sayin’

9. S.P. Gass Says:
   December 16th, 2008 at 9:23 am

   I think it sends a clear signal that the Obama administration is unlikely to seek cuts to passenger rail service.

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