Back on track: Europe’s night trains make bumpy comeback
Night trains have made a comeback in Europe thanks to their low-carbon footprint, but after years of neglect, the renaissance has had a bumpy ride. Operators admit that the trains…
Covid woes, not new checks, weigh on post-Brexit passengers
Travellers braving trains between London and Paris on the first day after Britain’s exit from the EU customs union experienced additional checks but were more worried by the extra rules…
In America, high-speed train travel is off track
California's suspension this week of a high-speed rail project underscores the up-hill battle the modern mode of transport faces in the United States - including myriad cultural, political and economic…
Preventing train accidents
The Train Drivers Welfare Association's countrywide strike causing suspension of passenger traffic for six to eight hours was called-off at the assurance of the railway authorities that their 'genuine' demands…
Japan’s bullet train hits half century
Fifty years ago, the first bullet train pulled out of Tokyo station and hurtled across the countryside, heralding Japan's arrival as a modern economic powerhouse with a transport system soon…
The future of SOEs [Part – III]
A detailed and rigorous exercise was undertaken to examine each SOE based on the ownership rationale and its financial performance as explained earlier, and all the commercial SOEs were categorized…
High speed rail in Pakistan
Lowari tunnel started in 1975 but stopped in 1976 due to paucity of funds. Recommenced in 2005 and but again stopped due to shortage of money; recommenced in 2013 and…
Leader of ‘virus-free’ Turkmenistan champions herbal defense
Ayna Garayeva, a school teacher in the capital of authoritarian and secretive Turkmenistan, began taking extra sanitary measures in her classroom when the government issued new guidelines in August. As…
Reviving the Railways
Pakistan’s poorly managed and decaying railways system took away 65 precious lives on June 7 when two passenger trains collided in Sindh in which five passengers were killed and nearly…
When corruption kills
Public-sector corruption is a big problem in many developing countries, but in Pakistan it has completely diffused through into the very bones of the country’s economic, social and political systems.…
