End of the line for Amtrak subsidies?

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: Cox, Wendell; Love, Jean; Moore, Stephen | Copyright information

Amtrak has received $13 billion in federal subsidies over the past 27 years, yet still underserves several major metro areas and has no presence in six states. Subsidies may have actually increased its inefficiencies. Several service suggestions from abroad may lead to a competitive future for Amtrak.

In 1970, Congress created Amtrak, the National Passenger Railroad, as a publicly owned for-profit company. A quarter-century later, Amtrak remains heavily dependent on public subsid...

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