Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Volume 5 Number 3
- Where to begin? There are so many choices. — Someone must have successfully been hitting Amtrak with a “stupid stick,” because Amtrak is doing something really stupid and unforgivable. — Amtrak clearly doesn’t take its mission of providing reliable, national passenger rail service seriously. It obviously has no intention of ever being a successful organization. — We’ve been horrified to see what happened to the east end of the Sunset Limited since Hurricane Katrina blew ashore, and now, could we be seeing a repeat performance with the Coast Starlight and the Oregon mudslide? — Once again, we’re seeing the direct result of Amtrak being a child of government, with a mentality of serving its passengers only when convenient for the operating department, and not worrying about maintaining market share, its franchise with the public, or running trains which are already paid for annually by continuing doses of free federal monies. Amtrak just can’t help proving for itself how irrelevant it is in the national transportation marketplace.
- Here’s the Amtrak service disruption notice that started this whole, unholy mess. (more…)
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Volume 5 Number 2
- EVERYONE involved in the process should hang their heads in shame. Some people may be smiling on the surface, but that only covers the long-lasting damage which has been done. (more…)
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Volume 5 Number 1
- Great, wonderful, progress! Amtrak has figured out the high value of its timetables in the world of marketing, and has started soliciting paid outside ads. The ads now appear in the Fall and Winter 2007-08 national timetables. Overall, Amtrak prints something close to a million timetables a year (including all of the individual route timetables and wallet corridor timetables), and has been doing so almost solely at its own expense for years. (more…)
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