An Associated Press story syndicated in today’s Oregonian addresses a topic I’ve long been passionate about: the plight of Amtrak.
Specifically, the national rail system is facing its worst on-time rates since the 1970s. Overall Amtrak is on time 68% of the time. But here on the West Coast, Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line between Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles was on time last year just four percent of the time. Four percent!
It isn’t Amtrak’s fault, though. The problem is that except on the East Coast, where the high-speed Acela Express is very successful, virtually nowhere in the nation does Amtrak own its own lines. Instead, as part of an agreement made in the 1970s that is regularly welched upon today, Amtrak uses freight lines. Passenger rail is supposed to be given a priority, as per the original agreement. That means freight trains weight for Amtrak to pass, not vice versa. But […]
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