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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
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Subject: Re: AMTRAK funding.
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 14:31:00 EST
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/* Written  8:25 pm  Feb  7, 1986 by JOHNSON%northeastern.csn@brl-smoke in ima:net.railroad */
>       Did anybody else hear that the '87 budget for AMTRAK was cut?

Reagan's 1987 budget, like his 1986 budget, proposes zero financing for
Amtrak, which would mean that all Amtrak operations would stop at the end
of FY1986.  I suppose that when everybody in the adminstration goes places
by helicopter, they don't notice that abandoning Amtrak would, among other
things, produce continuous traffic jams all the way from Washington to
Boston, both in the air and on the highway.  Write your congressmen --
despite its flaws, Amtrak needs and deserves all of the money it's got.  
I don't know where Reagan got the idea that Amtrak trains are all empty,
but he's quite wrong.

John Levine, ima!johnl