Accidental Passengers

A new cost saving personnel policy on trains may be putting passengers at risk, ride sharing price surges are coming into question and bowling with trams in Europe are all on the agenda in this episode.

Public transportation is evolving at lightning speed and no where else faster than First Mile/Last Mile modes of travel. Driverless shuttle buses for daily commuters have sprung up in a number of U.S. cities, e-scooter pilot programs are exploding and would you believe pogo sticks?

Boeing is still reeling from the news that it sent misinformation about the dreaded 737 which has crashed twice in five months killing a total of 346 people. A number of American carriers have slowed their flight schedules through the fall to avoid using the aircraft. California is pondering the benefits of High Speed Rail and Boston, Massachusetts is trying to explain multiple derailments and runaway trains.

Rod Morrison is a retired radio and television veteran who decided to showcase one of his great loves in life - trains , planes, and automobiles - in a podcast. He entered this venture with the other great love of his life, his wife Nancy Shack. In fact the two were married on the Cape Cod Scenic Train. Nancy is a writer, editor and producer for WBZ News Radio in Boston.