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Dukakis began his activism in the rail industry while a state legislator in the 1960s, as he opposed the popular belief that aiports and interstates would be sufficient means for transportation in the United States.
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.
Dukakis gave evidence of Acela’s effectivness, saying that even before Sept. 11, passenger volume on trains between Boston and New York was increasing, while that of the air shuttles between Logan International and John F. Kennedy International Airports was declining.
Dukakis translated his ideology into action as governor, spending $35 million to purchase old railroad lines that were then remodeled as the MBTA Commuter Rail.
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...