This Week at Amtrak 2006-01-26
January 26th, 2006
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Volume 3 Number 5
Re-Thinking America’s Rail Passenger Service
by Andrew C. Selden
Amtrak is at another of its many cross-roads: financially hopeless, working with an interim “acting” CEO, strapped to irreconcilable strategies (to provide abundant social services in its corridor markets, yet expected to produce tolerable financial results of operations overall, with an underdeveloped interregional business that it doesn’t understand or appreciate and supports halfheartedly for the wrong reasons). Many of its management systems are ineffectual or unreliable, according to the October 2005 GAO analysis.
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