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...such, for high-speed rail to become a viable form of mass transportation in this country, any new initiative must be a truly competitive alternative to the dominant automotive and airline industries. Amtrak??€™s poor track record has given rise to the false assumption that American culture is somehow incompatible with mass transit or railroads; this is absolutely false. Poor management practices should be remedied by decisive action—for starters, President Obama ought to encourage private industry to cooperate with Amtrak by offering tax breaks for those firms willing to cooperate on the proposed renovation plan...
...recent years. Just one day after Obama’s speech, the governors of eight Midwestern states sent the president a letter urging him to support a new proposed plan that would connect Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Madison, Wisconsin with a network of fast passenger trains. And, while, Amtrak??€™s trans-continental lines may be the object of ridicule, ridership on the Acela line has grown rapidly as fuel prices have made air and car travel less attractive to business commuters. We hope that new plans for high-speed rail expansion will build on this progress...
...weeks, Congress seems poised to intervene. But in the event that there is a strike, it will involve severe repercussions for transit systems throughout the Northeast, and any resolution will almost certainly require a government bailout. Such a scenario would highlight two striking problems with the current state of Amtrak??€”namely, the inefficiency of its control over major commuter rail stations and its inability to become financially self-sufficient...
...self-sufficiency are bleak. In spite of modest increases in revenue this year, Amtrak, which has been the beneficiary of rising gasoline costs and long lines at airports, may never be able to operate without federal subsidies. Given its permanent state of dependence, the federal government should cease prolonging Amtrak??€™s operational control of intercity rail services and instead allow competing firms to bid on rights to operate passenger trains on corridors of their choosing a strategy the MBTA employs successfully for its commuter rails...
...needed is a collaborative effort between Amtrak and the freight railroads to expand and add capacity to the existing system so that Amtrak trains don’t have to wait around for freight trains to get out of their way—the single most important reason why Amtrak??€™s on time performance on some of its long distance routes isn’t what it should...