Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Amtrak

Gabbard Examines Pending CA Legislation That Would Reorganize Regional Rail Service

By Streetsblog | Sep 25, 2012 | 4 Comments

Some 14 years after administration of the Amtrak Capitol Corridor intercity rail service was transferred from the state to a local association of transportation agencies along its corridor; two bills (Senate Bill 1225 and Assembly Bill 1779) have reached the Governor’s desk that would allow similar transfers for (respectively) the Southern California coastal Pacific Surfliner and […]

CRS: Northeast Corridor Privatization Plan Violates Constitution

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 13, 2011 | No Comments

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has examined the question of whether the GOP plan to privatize Amtrak’s most valuable corridor is constitutional – and it’s determined that it is not. Warning: this is about to get a little wonky. But I figure if Streetsblog readers can get all nerdy on transit, you can probably geek […]

Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

A powwow between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama, and House Speaker John Boehner last night failed to yield a compromise that would put a budget in place before the government shuts down at midnight tonight. The failure of yet another attempt to negotiate makes a government shutdown all but inevitable. Just a month […]

What Will Become of Amtrak If It’s Left Out of Plans to Expand HSR?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 2, 2011 | No Comments

When President Obama and Secretary LaHood talk about their bold new vision for high-speed rail, you don’t hear them mention the country’s very own train company, which just celebrated ten years of providing the closest thing this country has to high-speed rail service, in the Northeast Corridor. The administration has doled out $10.5 billion so […]

Republicans Propose Spending Cuts Targeting Amtrak, Transit Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 21, 2011 | No Comments

A new Republican proposal would eliminate federal subsidies to Amtrak; kill New Starts, the primary federal transit funding program; and make painful cuts to dozens of other federal programs. It’s a plan by the Republican Study Committee, which is trying to keep alive House Speaker John Boehner’s campaign pledge to reduce the budget by $100 […]

Amtrak Customer Advisory Committee Recruiting Southern Californians

By Dana Gabbard | Jun 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

A few years ago I joined Amtrak’s Guest Rewards program, which every month sends an e-mail showing my current point total. These also include a few tidbits of the latest Amtrak news. This is how I learned Amtrak’s Customer Advisory Committee (ACAC) is currently recruiting new committee members to fill impending vacancies from several areas, […]

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