Wasting no time, Amtrak’s board of directors today named Joseph Boardman as Amtrak’s new president. He replaces Alex Kummant, who quit a couple of weeks ago after being on the job for just two years. Kummant, we now learn, had had an increasing number of disagreements with board members and apparently decided to jump before…
Back in September, the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation published a report listing the causes of delays to Amtrak trains outside the Northeast Corridor (Washington-Boston). 1. Dispatchers for the freight railroads giving priority to their trains instead of Amtrak as the law requires. 2. Work on the tracks which means trains most…
A couple of days ago, USA Today published a story by writer Bill McGee that’s a comprehensive review of where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on transportation issues … specifically on that segment of the industry that affects the traveling public. As I have mentioned on prior occasions, McCain has been an implacable foe…
What if you couldn’t find out until some time in November what your household income would be for next year? It could be the same … it might increase by 5 percent … or it could be reduced by 40 percent. How the hell could you plan for anything?? You couldn’t, of course, but that’s…