Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on RailroadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Current Amtrak Financial Condition
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on RailroadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Amtrak's Financial Situation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant MarinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Amtrak's Financial Condition
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Amtrak, America's Railroad
Author: Geoffrey H. DoughtyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253060656
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making. In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post–World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the solution. In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival, Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and their proposed solutions. Created in the absence of a comprehensive national transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service, whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
Amtrak's Financial Situation
Author: Kay Bailey HutchinsonPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 078818556X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
A hearing held to look at the current financial situation of Amtrak and to determine the best way to handle Amtrak's fiscal and financial situation, including the best way to address capital needs. Witnesses include: Thomas M. Downs, Pres. and CEO, Amtrak; Donald M. Itzkoff, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Admin., U.S. Dept. of Transportation; Phyllis F. Scheinberg, Assoc. Dir., Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development, General Accounting Office; Karen Borlaug Phillips, Assoc. of American Railroads; and Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Ron Wyden, Daniel K. Inouye, and John F. Kerry.
Amtrak: Financial Condition Has Deteriorated and Future Costs Make Recovery Difficult
Author: Amtrak
Author: Kenneth M. MeadHow Much Federal Subsidy Will Amtrak Need?
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommonsPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Amtrak Improvement Act of 1976
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description