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I am thinking that this is different. He's the only witness to what really happened. You're saying this person has a right to keep silence, even though he held peoples' lives in his hands?
Absolutely.
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If a student died in a teacher's classroom, wouldn't that teacher be forced to testify?
AmTrak blows over $80 million a year in food service theft and waste. They get plenty of money. If it were privatized, the money would be going where it is needed. Airlines don't lose that kind of money just in food. Install vending machines and get rid of the food servers and use the money on safety instead.
Like I mentioned before, the section if straight track had a much higher speed limit. Like cars on the highway, if the limit is 80 most are gonna do 90-95.
AmTrak blows over $80 million a year in food service theft and waste. They get plenty of money. If it were privatized, the money would be going where it is needed. Airlines don't lose that kind of money just in food. Install vending machines and get rid of the food servers and use the money on safety instead.
If you privatize, many routes through the Red States would be eliminated because they are low ridership, money losers. I don't care because I would't be affected, but the constituents in those states might be very upset.
First off, this was not a freight train. It was Amtrak. Freights are limited to 69 mph max in limited areas (and these are almost always intermodal), but that is not the point. The speed limit for Amtrak trains through this stretch is 50 (from what I've seen so far). This stretch of track is not ran on by freights according to the news.
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If you privatize, many routes through the Red States would be eliminated because they are low ridership, money losers. I don't care because I would't be affected, but the constituents in those states might be very upset.
Mick
Just an aside.
Are you guys old enough to remember when ALL passenger rail was private? The Pennsylvania RR was the biggest corporation in the world at one time. They never made a profit on passenger rail as far as I know. And eventually it went bankrupt after a vain attempt at joining the PRR with the New York Central.
If you privatize, many routes through the Red States would be eliminated because they are low ridership, money losers. I don't care because I would't be affected, but the constituents in those states might be very upset.
I doubt it. Very few people in Red States rely on trains and we don't have the high density seen in the Northeast. Most would agree that they should be cost effective.
We have Southwest and cars. That's what get's us where we are going.
I doubt it. Very few people in Red States rely on trains and we don't have the high density seen in the Northeast. Most would agree that they should be cost effective.
We have Southwest and cars. That's what get's us where we are going.
You are right, but I am not sure that "most" would agree. Politicians from those states have been adamant about keeping the long routes through their areas. To be fair, that could be because of many reasons, not necessarily representing the wishes of their constituents.
I know that Amtrak is reluctant to cut long routes for the fear that if only 23 states have Amtrak service, the politicians of the other 27 states would have no reservations about cutting its budget or taking other adverse actions. These long routes are responsible for most of Amtrak's losses, so we can't fairly attribute its losses to just waste and theft.
Do you believe his lawyer advised the engineer to say so?
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Amtrak Engineer Has No Memory of What Happened.
