Weekly Roundup Friday 28 February 2014
Good morning For once, a week relatively unharmed by weather disruptions. Let’s hope we’ve put that behind us for another winter (ummm – is this where I point out the weather forecast for next week …
Month: February 2014
Does Amtrak – and Most Rail Services in General – Have Only Ten Years Left?
A new technological development threatens to totally disrupt the underlying premise and promise of rail travel. We discussed Amtrak’s need – and inability – to compete with automobiles when providing public transportation services last week. …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 21 February 2014
Good morning Another week, another round of weather problems. As of Monday, there had been more than 75,000 domestic flight cancellations since 1 December – the highest total number and percentage of flights cancelled since …
Analyzing Amtrak’s Partial Epiphany
Here’s an interesting article about Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train that runs between Los Angeles and Chicago that uncritically reports on some issues but doesn’t analyze them at all. The train is described as one of …
Weekly Roundup Friday 14 February 2014
Good morning Another week, another series of weather related disasters. Except, it isn’t really weather that is the problem, and we need to stop allowing everyone to play their weather-related ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ …
New Technology Counters the Studio Stranglehold on Movie Making
We wrote recently about the impact of new technology on how we can watch movies in the near future. Our contention is that creating a true ‘big screen’ experience, as good as or better than …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 7 February 2014
Good morning It is Olympic time again, with the Sochi winter Olympics opening today. It seems we might get to learn the answer to the question ‘What if they held an Olympics and no-one came?’ …
The ‘Open Skies’ Loophole We Need to Close
Much is made of the occasional open-skies agreements between the US and foreign nations. These new ‘open sky’ agreements replace earlier treaties that would specify and restrict which airlines could fly between the two countries. …
