I wanted to take this opportunity to thank my fellow Connecticut voters for supporting Barack Obama in Super Tuesday’s Democratic primary! I was hoping to let this out of the bag on Letterman or perhaps at a ritzy Manhattan fundraiser – but I guess that ain’t gonna happen – but StationStops.com is proud to officially [...]

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TJ over at Trainjotting is having a little suaré over at Pershing Square tonight at 7PM, all are invited – I’ll be there, as well as a host of other commuting bloggers. We’ll be the guys at the bar who look like commuting bloggers. via Trainjotting

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I have a confession to make – back in the day, I used to be a scanner nut. No, not the scanners we use now to get old snapshots into our computer, but the kind that allow you to listen to police and radio calls. <A href=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fk750ireviewco-20%2F8001%2F9014a786-a368-4764-a8a5-dd9f043cbc52&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> It didn’t last long, but since I [...]

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Amazon.com Widgets Interesting news for those of you who may be shopping for a new commuting notebook…. (and thats the last time I’ll qualify writing about gadgets on a commuting blog … Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air ultraportable notebook at the annual MacWorld conference in San Francisco, and its causing quite a stir. It [...]

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Tonight I watched the American Experience: Grand Central Terminal documentary on PBS – it was very informative and the photography was beautiful in HD. They used a method of converting wonderfully detailed old photographs of the train yard into some sort of panning 3d-diorama to very impressive effect…

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On Tuesday we reported on NYC Subways getting additional anti-terrorist patrol thanks to an increase of $50M in Homeland Security funding. Well, seems that NYC is throwing another $50M bone of its own to to the stations as well, as a dormant project to get a fresh coat of paint on stations has been resurrected. [...]

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