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...from New York. She added, however, “I don’t like dealing with the airports in New York, so although it would be faster to fly, I would rather take the bus.” The other option for the Boston-New York commute is Amtrak??tickets on Amtrak trains range from $54 to $90, and tickets on the Acela express can be as pricey as $117. The JetBlue expansion will not stop with New York. The company plans to triple the number of destinations accessible to Boston travelers by the year 2006, according...
Dukakis—who took the T to the speech—currently serves as the vice chair of Amtrak??s board of directors. Amtrak has been beset by financial problems in recent months and has called on the government to provide assistance in order to ensure its survival...
...unprofitable as Amtrak has been, it deserves another chance to survive. The government should keep trying to increase Amtrak??s reliability and customer service, as an effective rail system would greatly increase Amtrak??s profits. The potential passenger market for Amtrak is tremendous; millions of people each year take extended trips using America’s highways and airlines. Many of them would surely be interested in taking trips by rail. But progress towards increasing Amtrak??s share of the travel market can never be made without a substantive influx of funds from Congress...
After federal funding for Amtrak decreased somewhat during the 1980s, Congress reorganized Amtrak??which currently carries 22 million passengers each year?...
According to Dukakis, Amtrak??s Acela Express serice—a high-speed train running between Boston and Washington, D.C.—will provide 10 frequencies each day after the first of the year...