AZ ST: Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., continues to have routine breakdowns despite receiving massive injections of taxpayer dollars from the Biden administration, according to data from the Department of Transportation (DOT).
Since 2021, there have been 333 Amtrak train incidents reported nationwide as of July 9, 2024, slightly less than the 397 incidents that occurred between 2016 and July 2020 during former President Trump’s tenure, according to the DOT. The Biden administration, as a part of an announced $66 billion for passenger rail in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, has dedicated huge amounts of taxpayer cash to Amtrak, including $4 billion being given to the rail company near the end of 2022, according to the White House. more
i thought sniffer used to drive these things?
or maybe he was a track-layer, like the guys in blazing saddles?
Remember: Pete Butthead is Secy of Transportation. Jill Biden probably picked him too.
Massive injections of taxpayer money of which Amtrak receives a small fraction.
Am not on trak
“…keeps breaking down despite massive infusions of taxpayer cash” Now, for some reason, I’m thinking of a certain country whose name rhymes with “train”.
And isn’t it passing strange that everybody but us is getting high-speed trains and hypersonic missiles? Are those things somehow incompatible with DEI? Hell, even slow trains are apparently incompatible with DEI.
If they actually fixed the problem, then the infusion of money stops. Isn”t that how it works?
This is predictable….Trains just aren’t designed to go up or down slopes…
Liberal commie democrats destroy everything they touch.
Let it die already.
They are not there to serve you, you are there to serve them. That’s the long and short of it. Just try and schedule a trip if you doubt me.
Hire Kamala to fix it. I hear she’s good at pulling a train.
And the cost of a ticket is ridiculous and sometimes doubled. On the auto train it can cost $ 120 for a seat PLUS $ 350 for your car ( one way) and if you want your own sleeper that will cost an additional (depending on room type) $ 200 to 1,500 and that’s the low estimate.
Plane tickets ( with no car but rental of a good one for a week is $ 350) can be had for less than $ 200 to 300 per. Plus you have to live with the tyranny of Amtrak schedules.
Europe and even South America does it better.
Ask your congres critter how the taxpayers came to own AMTRACK.
how many dei mechanics are there?
it’s not broke.
it is being held hostage for more money.
After that massive bail-out, Joe Biden insisted that all Amtrak employees henceforth refer to him as “Uncle Choo-Choo”.
SCAMTRAK
I remember when Amtrak lost tens of millions of dollars on their hamburgers alone. OPM- Other peoples money disappears quickly.
Here’s an idea
Tie their pay to efficiency and lack of theft.
Anybody remember the manual reciprocating driving device?
It’s known in the military as a hammer, only $500 back then.
And just how are the trains supposed to be fixed after everybody gets their cut of the money. It ain’t rocket science.