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One of Amazon s growing fleet of cargo jets. These days “Getting There” doesn’t just mean moving yourself from point A to B, but the logistics of moving stuff from dozens of locations to your doorstep. And nobody does that better than Amazon. Jim Cameron Want a new pair of jeans? Click once and they’re delivered the next day. Need a new printer? Maybe a couple of days because they’re still scarce, thanks to the home-office explosion. Your favorite ointment out of stock at CVS? Save yourself a trip, click here and apply twice daily. In his 2013 book “The Everything Store” (yes, available on Amazon), business writer Brad Stone chronicles the early days of Jeff Bezos’ dream. But in the intervening years the Amazon phenomenon has grown far beyond anything that even Stone could have envisioned. ....
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 Gov. Ned Lamont’s long-promised dream of a 30-minute trip time. Jim Cameron But now there’s a new effort to speed up the New Haven line: CDOT’s ambitious “Time for CT” $8-10 billion plan. It promises 10-minute faster running times from New Haven to New York 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, the Connecticut Department of Transportation and Metro-North Railroad are taking, in my view, a much more realistic approach to fixing our existing system. “Higher” speeds will be fine. ....
Flickr user Professor Bop More people are riding Metro-North. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it’s adding more trains to keep up with demand. The MTA said it’s returning eight trains to the track during peak service on the New Haven, Harlem and Hudson Lines next week. That brings service up to about 60% of where it was pre-pandemic. Metro-North said more people are riding the train on weekdays with June 1 being its busiest day since the pandemic began. Jim Cameron with the Commuter Action Group said he’s encouraged by the news. “You just have to look at your local train station parking lot and you can tell that slowly commuters are coming back. I don’t think they’re gonna come back to the old pre-COVID numbers, but I think it’s crucial that the service be there to attract riders back onto the trains,” Cameron said. ....