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- From: atrw0176@cellar.org (Atrw93)
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- Subject: Re: Amtrak's future under a Clinton administration
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:36:36 GMT
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- kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
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- >
- > * Upgrading of the old D&H line from Albany to Montreal. Who owns it now?
- > Could Amtrak acquire it? The Adirondack between Albany and Montreal has the
- > worst on-time record of any train in the Northeast. Something should be
- > done about it. A high-speed corridor from Montreal to NYC would be my
- > ultimate pipe-dream goal here, but that'd take lots of work.
- >
- As long as the US Customs service believes that every traveler is
- smuggling drugs and takes its arrogant attitude toward the train service,
- no one knows how much to allow for border travel.
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- If you make it a reasonably expected time they will hold you up
- anothe 30 min to two hours. If you allow more time in the schedule
- and they finish fast, then you sit and wait out your departure
- time.
-
- Hopefully with NAFTA, we can dispense with idiotic practices ( and the
- idiots who implement them.
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