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End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America's Passenger Trains - Hardcover

Vranich, Joseph

 
9780844742038: End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America's Passenger Trains
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0844742031 ISBN 13: 9780844742038
Verlag: AMER ENTERPRISE INST PUBL, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The book addresses myths and fallacies about Amtrak, exposing how the railroad is not as essential to mobility as it claims. For example, each of the nation's top sixteen airports serves more travelers every day than does Amtrak's entire national system.
This well-documented study chronicles Amtrak's repeated threats to shut down the nation's passenger railroads, including many commuter trains that operate on Amtrak's lines, unless Congress increases subsidies. Joseph Vranich also explains why deliveries of supposedly "high-speed" Acela Express trains were years behind schedule. Most shockingly, Vranich exposes Amtrak's failure to address critical safety problems in the New York City railroad tunnels - the most critical infrastructure it owns. This disregard for public safety in New York leaves travelers on Amtrak's busiest line needlessly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, while the railroad continues to squander billions of dollars elsewhere on lightly traveled routes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Vranich has served as a public affairs spokesman for Amtrak and as president of the High Speed Rail Association.

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Verlag
AMER ENTERPRISE INST PUBL
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0844742031
ISBN 13 
9780844742038
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
282
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