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Amtrak delays shutdown for a week
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak said yesterday that it will run its full passenger train service for another week but added that it will have to begin an orderly shutdown July 4 or July 5 if it has not received a federal loan guarantee or a direct appropriation of...
Amtrak gives itself 2 weeks, in a lightless tunnel
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak officials said last night that they had found enough cash to operate for about two more weeks but warned that continued inaction by the White House and Congress would force the railroad to shut down by July 8 or 9, reports the New York Times....
Action Alert: Tell GE to park anti-union campaign
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the past two years, hundreds of parking attendants employed by InterPark -- which is owned by a subsidiary of General Electric -- have been struggling for a voice at work. These workers receive low pay, have poor benefits and work in dangerous...
Teamsters gather in D.C. for political action conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Teamster Political and Legislative Coordinators from across the country are gathering in Washington this week to discuss strategy for the 2002 election cycle. The three-day conference will highlight the union's political theme -- "Building a...
Rail forecasts hiked on U.S. volume pickup
MIAMI -- Bear, Stearns & Co on Monday said it raised earnings forecasts for three North American railroads, saying shipping volumes were picking up faster than expected and should help profits, a wire service reported. "With the exception of Eastern coal volumes,...
Opinion: Bush passenger ‘plan’ is recipe for disaster
After months of delay, this is the best passenger rail “plan” the Bush administration could come up with? Rail advocates have low expectations after decades of federal neglect of Amtrak. But the five-principle plan Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta revealed...
Opinion: Financial end of the line?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak President David Gunn was probably not issuing an idle threat when he vowed to start closing down the nation's passenger rail system by midweek if a federal bailout is not received, according to an editorial in the Washington Post. Without a...
Senate aims to aid Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- According to a wire service, with the Bush administration offering no plan to rescue Amtrak, America's passenger railroad system, from a threatened shutdown, the U.S. Senate will take matters into its own hands on Tuesday. Senate lawmakers, led by...
Who will run trains if Amtrak folds?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) today requested information to determine if the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has “sufficient authority to prevent the wide-spread disruptions that might result in the Northeast and elsewhere from a shut down of...
Amtrak wheeze, New York shudder
NEW YORK -- The worry ricocheting through the New York region's transportation agencies yesterday was that if push came to shove in Amtrak's fight for emergency help from the government, the railroad would not just shut down its own trains, it would park them in the...
