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...include capital expenses) on total revenues of around $2.5 billion. This summer it took out a $300 million mortgage on New York City's Penn Station to keep the trains running. When the nation's skies were shut down after Sept. 11, Amtrak did enjoy a brief spike in traffic, especially on its faster, new Acela trains between Washington and Boston. But with leisure travel across the country slipping, Amtrak's overall September ridership was actually 6% lower than last year's, and security costs are rising...
...Plane? The airline business may never be the same as it was before those planes hit - although air traffic has rebounded slightly since Sept. 11, it was still off 25 percent in October from last year?s numbers, and most analysts figure the industry?s 20-percent reduction in capacity is here for good. That tight supply-demand relationship means that this holiday, even flyers willing to brave the clogged security lines (and they're going to get longer - Congress' new security measures haven?t even arrived in force yet) and the possibility of another air disaster aren't getting...
...since Sept. 11. And Southern Californians have been slipping over the border to Tijuana, of all places, in search of airline safety. That city's Rodriguez International Airport, which has added more armed guards in its terminals and randomly checks luggage of 1 of every 5 passengers, reports that traffic is up 19% since Sept. 11, with nervous Americans making up much of the increase...
...commercial and declared, "If I were a Virginian, I would vote for Mark Earley." Giuliani's benediction couldn't help the hapless Republican gubernatorial candidate. Earley's opponent, Democratic businessman Mark Warner, made sure to pose with flags and fire fighters, but the race was about taxes, teachers' salaries, traffic congestion--pre-9/11 stuff. Warner won with 52% of the vote...
...yards later, Balestracci hit traffic and lateralled the ball to Kingston, who was streaking to his right...