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Congratulations to Daniel Eisenberg for a strong, balanced piece on Amtrak and its future [BUSINESS, Dec. 3]. Breaking up Amtrak only to reinvent it would be a mistake. The intercity rail system is one of the few institutions that unites our country, in a physical as well as spiritual sense, by connecting the small towns and cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone...
California in particular seems prime for an increased Amtrak presence, Dukakis said...
Dukakis, who is now a professor at Northeastern University and the University of California at Los Angeles, cited a gap in government transportation spending during his speech, saying that $45 billion in federal funds are spent on automobile and air travel, while a comparatively minute $331 million goes to Amtrak...
Dukakis said that Amtrak would only need 70 percent of travelers between Boston and New York and New York to Washington to choose the train for Amtrak to be operationally profitable...
Dukakis, a 1960 graduate of Harvard Law School, touched on security issues, as well, saying that Amtrak has stepped up police presence at its stations and utilized bomb-sniffing dogs...