Long-distance passenger trains like Amtrak’s Southwest Chief are being targeted for shutdown and Congress needs to intervene with hearings on that largely hidden agenda, according to Joe Boardman, the former Amtrak chief executive who retired in 2016.
“We need Congress to intervene and restate what our national policy is on passenger rail service,” Boardman said this week. “It’s always been to have a national rail service, not just passenger trains in the Northeast corridor. It can’t be that taxpayers subsidize train service for commuters in the Northeast and the rest of the country does without.”
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