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Moreover, Ingram doesn’t seem to understand that the American rail passenger system was privatized, and it went bankrupt. That’s why the Nixon administration created Amtrak. And the private freight railroads, which are doing well these days, want no part of a return to passenger service. They couldn’t make money on it when they ran it, and they would require massive public subsidies to return to the passenger business...
...past three years. It takes approximately six-and-a-half hours, not in excess of nine, to travel from Boston to Washington, D.C. on the Acela, and it wouldn’t take much in the way of capital investment to cut those times significantly. The private freight railroads are required by law to make their rights of way available to Amtrak, so there is no need for Amtrak to “lease” them. What is needed is a collaborative effort between Amtrak and the freight railroads to expand and add capacity to the existing system...
...area is not zoned at present for institutional uses, but that once that is changed by the city it opens the door for almost unlimited future expansion. “Once you let a complex through the door there’s no stopping it. It becomes a runaway freight train,” he said, noting the difficult balancing act the city must undertake to allow institutions to develop without overwhelming the neighborhood. Robert E. Cook ’68, director of the Arboretum, said that the development was necessary for the Arboretum’s growth and that...
...They are an integral part of the international terror network," says the Western diplomat, acknowledging reports of the L.T.T.E. providing trainers to groups in Africa, the Middle East and Asia and exporting weapons to al Qaeda and Chechnya. "They are consultants, freight forwarders, money launderers and instructors. And they are extraordinarily well-funded...
There are two major obstacles to privatization. Firstly, European governments used to own both the passenger service and the infrastructure it ran on, but private freight companies currently own most of Amtrak’s tracks. This issue could be overcome with long-term lease agreements between the freight companies and whichever private corporations buy Amtrak...