Title: Privatize Amtrak? Yes; Sell It Back to the Freight Railroads
Abstract: This article proposes integrating rail freight and passenger service by transferring ownership and control of Amtrak back to the freight railroads. The current structure and funding keeps Amtrak alive, but unable to truly prosper. Interest-based bargaining, whereby the federal, state and local governments and freight railroads each work to satisfy the other's needs, could help a public-private partnership for passenger rail transportation succeed. A response to this article (Sell Amtrak Back to the Freights? by James E. Coston) appears on pp 498-506 of this issue.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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