I wonder where this will end up?

The Amtrak board has approved an essential step in the Bush administration plan to break up the railroad, voting to carve out the Northeast Corridor, the tracks between Boston and Washington, as a separate division.

The board, made up entirely of Mr. Bush’s appointees, voted in a meeting on Sept. 22 to create a new subsidiary to own and manage the corridor, which includes nearly all the track that Amtrak owns.

And, just as a wild guess, I expect that this subsidiary will "save money" by not hiring any MOW crews or dispatchers, but will instead outsource this work to some reliable government contractor who just so happens to be a major contributer to the Evil Party.

It will be like Railtrack on steroids, and Amtrak will end up having to pay US$10 billion dollars a year to run their Acela trains at 30mph over rotting ties sinking into the mud. But ~~Halliburton~~ the talented railroad outsourcing organization will be awarding million-dollar bonuses to their current and retired executives, so it will be a fortunate wind after all.

(via Suburban Guerrilla)

—orc Thu Oct 13 23:19:56 2005

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I wonder where this will end up?