Robert K posted:His way of doing things is cut cut cut sort of like Hunter Harrison who also hated steam engines. He is serious. He now wants to cut the Southwest Chief in half and replace the missing segment with buses. That will really hurt ridership. He is doing this to justify cutting the long distance trains. He cut dining cars on a couple trains and already the complaints came rolling in. Nobody wants cold airline food. Anderson was installed to slowly destroy Amtrak. I don’t know if that was Trump’s doing or not.
Don't know? Really? Read one of the many articles on Trump's budget - Time magazine, Fortune magazine, WSJ - any of them.
"President Trump unveiled his budget for fiscal year 2019 on Monday, along with a 55 page infrastructure plan.......his budget proposes cutting federal grants to Amtrak by over 50%."
Amtrak has now gotten flakey. See the thread on how the SW Chief is being killed: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., says Amtrak has backtracked on the finances. “The lack of transparency by Amtrak management about its changing position on the Southwest Chief is deeply troubling, particularly for a Government-Sponsored Enterprise entrusted with an important public transportation mission,” he said in a statement
