(Source: Editorial in the Washington Post, December 9, 2015)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — DEEP IN the transportation bill Congress passed last week is a seemingly small but possibly critical change in funding for Amtrak, the country’s national passenger rail service. Lawmakers want to separate the budget for routes along the popular Northeast Corridor from the rest of the network. Any operating profits Amtrak makes on the Northeast route, which people actually use, would be reinvested there rather than going to prop up lines elsewhere. Advocates for maintaining lines serving little-used stations between the coasts may balk. But this reform is long overdue.
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