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Derailed by Joseph Vranich What went wrong what to do about America's passenger
Derailed by Joseph Vranich What went wrong and what to do about Americas passenger trains. With dust jacket Copyright 1997 FIRST EDITION 258 pages 16 pages black and white photographs. MISPRINT on the back flap of the dust jacket (Authors name is spelled wrong)
Joseph Vranich, who worked to create Amtrak, now nearly three decades later declares it a "failed experiment." Free of his ties to the rail industry today, he candidly reviews Amtrak's troubled history, its loss of market share, and its inability to provide better and faster service. Vranich reveals how Amtrak trains on most routes are not only slower than American trains were fifty years ago but are also slower than some trains found today in the Third World.
Vranich argues for passenger trains where and when they are needed. He praises innovative commuter rail agencies, high-speed train planners, and long-distance "land-cruise" trains run by independent organizations. He also offers insights from other countries, pointing the way to a successful rail system in the United States. This is a blueprint to defederalize and liquidate Amtrak-a bold and convincing call to kill a wasteful government system. Vranich shows how to smartly dissolve Amtrak while keeping vital trains running in the twenty-first century.
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