It's very dispiriting to think about train travel right now. Amtrak fired its president, David Gunn, supposedly because he wasn't running Amtrak the way the board (one person?) thought he should be. But it goes along with Sec'y Mineta's line of attack on Amtrak's long distance service. Gunn has been doing as well or better than could be done given the handicaps he had to work with. The man who fired him, David Laney, had only a few months earlier, complimented Gunn on the work he was doing; evidently he got the message from Mineta: Get rid of this guy--he knows how to run a railroad. As long as those who wield the power have their way there's little chance America has of ultimately keeping a transcontinental system as we once knew it.
The only thing saving any of it right now is the fact that Congress has already passed the subsidy funding for 2006. Soooo?
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