(Source: Sun Journal, May 22, 2015)
NEW BERN, N.C. — Less than a day after a passenger train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and blocking lines up and down the Eastern Seaboard, a U.S. House panel voted to cut Amtrak’s budget by $252 million, or one-fifth. True, the cuts were on capital improvements, not safety features. Still, this vote shows the short-sightedness that is crippling transportation.
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