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RailHaRRy

Jul 21 2003, 06:34 PM

From Fox News:

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Amtrak Pleads for More Money

Thursday, July 17, 2003

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON — Some say you could set a clock to it.

No, not Amtrak's departure and arrival times, but its yearly funding requests.

Every year, Amtrak asks Congress for money to stay afloat. Congress haggles over every dollar, and in the end the railroad giant gets what it needs. This year, things may or may not be the same.

Full article here.

NickG

Jul 22 2003, 02:43 PM

Some of the quotes in this article were horrifying for me to read. It seems that nothing David Gunn says will get our representatives to acknowledge that a safe national passenger rail system cannot exist without public subsidy and that their beloved Amtrak Reform Council was built on a foundation of complete and utter transportation ignorance. The French and Japanese pour vaults and vaults of money into their passenger rail systems each year--without bickering about it beforehand-- and the trains zip across those countries at close to 200 MPH and almost always arrive on time. Wow! What a coincidence!

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