This Week at Amtrak 2006-08-18
August 18th, 2006
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Volume 3 Number 33
- Whither the Sunset Limited, again? America’s only transcontinental passenger train still only covers half of a continent. When will it return? When will Amtrak keep its obligation to the American taxpayers who are helping pay for this train, and resume running it? When will Amtrak keep its obligation to its employees who worked to make this train successful, but have been rewarded by being out of a job for over a year, now?Amtrak has offered excuse after excuse, to union leaders, its employees, and others. Publications such as Trains magazine, which should be monitoring this situation, have instead blithely accepted many excuses including Amtrak’s all-time-most-successful excuse: “The dog ate my homework.”
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