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Article: Brake trouble fuels larger debate over Amtrak; Problems with high-speed Acela trains underline fight over whether railway should be privatized or funded better federally.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 22, 2005
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Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK -- With Amtrak's flagship Acela service sidelined until at least the summer, attention is now being focused on the long-term future of the nation's struggling passenger rail service.
President Bush wants to do away completely with the company's $1.2 billion federal subsidy, breaking up and privatizing Amtrak, which would shift responsibility for rail service to the states. Amtrak's advocates say that the railroad continues to struggle precisely because Washington has never invested enough in it. They say that breaking up the company now would only doom passenger rail in the ...