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...Haven has one of the worst on-time records (82.8%) of any U.S. road, suffers from a fantastically high breakdown record. Alpert has cut maintenance costs drastically-although, quips one sardonic commuter, "It's not quite come to the point where your wife kisses you goodbye every morning thinking it's the last time." He has also needled commuters with such niggling little gestures as the removal of the nightly express "theater" train to the suburbs-as has the New York Central. "Riding the New Haven," says a Wall Street commuter, "is the most vicious form of travel...
Help for Ceylon. The New Haven's Alpert thinks the solution to such problems is an all-out campaign for Government subsidies. He charges that the railroads are slowly being crushed by subsidized competition. Says he: "Subsidy is a common practice today, particularly in the field of transportation. Billions have been spent in the construction of airports for the use of the airlines. This is a subsidy. Hundreds of millions have been spent to maintain the merchant fleet, privately owned. This is a subsidy. For the benefit of the automobile and truck user, $93 billion has been spent...
...Alpert is particularly galled that the Government gave more than $2,000,000 in 1958 subsidies to New York Airways' helicopter service, which carried fewer passengers all year (91,000) than the New Haven carries in a day. The Government has given loans and grants of more than $1 billion to aid foreign railroads, including one chunk for improving commuter service in Colombo, Ceylon...
...Says Alpert: "There would seem to be very little reason why some slight recognition should not be given by our Government to the railroads that are struggling for survival here...
RAILROAD operators say they have had enough. "The necessity of employing firemen on freight and yard diesels costs the New Haven over $3,500,000 a year," says George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad. "This is absolutely unessential." Says E. F. Bidez, vice president of the Central of Georgia Railroad: "In 1958 we paid firemen on freight and switch engines $1,005,000. Considering the fact that we could get along without most of them, that's a good bit of money. It's 50% of the net earned last year." The Great Northern Railroad reports...