Intercity

Several weeks later, drones hit an intercity bus killing nine people.

The conflicts between trains are not hard to understand: The express intercity trains need to pass the slower commuter trains.

Upgrading the Northeast Corridor, the train tracks that run from Boston to Washington by way of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, with spurs to neighboring cities, has been the longtime dream of the region’s leaders and planners at Amtrak, which runs the intercity trains.

Right before the COVID-19 pandemic, trains on the corridor moved nearly a million passengers each day—but the true scope of train travel demand, judging by the interminable traffic, frequent flights, and intercity bus service, is still constrained by high prices and poor service.

The Intercity Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, conducted by Charles Dickerson III, took on the huge assignment of the first and last movements from Mahler’s Third, his longest symphony.