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A “high-speed, viable and operationally profitable” national rail system would cost $1.5 billion per year, former Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis said at a Kennedy School of Government luncheon yesterday.
Before a packed gathering in the Stubbons Room at Gund Hall, Dukakis, now vice chair of Amtrak’s Board of Directors, emphasized the need for an efficient form of national transportation in addition to airlines and highways. Congress has helped to revitalize Amtrak, he said.
“Clinton didn’t give as much attention to the rail system as I would have liked,” Dukakis said.
A board was appointed—including Dukakis—to a five-year term, with the intent of making Amtrak self-sufficient by 2003, said Dukakis, a former Mass. governor.
“He wrote the book on corporate involvement in the community,” says former Mass. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, for whom Jackson served as a top aide before accepting the position at BankBoston. “He demonstrated to the corporate world that [community service] isn?...