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How about privatizing Amtrak sleepers or diners?

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[quote user="henry6"] It is probably the only thing George the Inept said that I agreed with: replace Amtrak with regional or other entities.  Well, maybe not eliminate Amtrak so much as alter it.  There are more and more interdependent city/markets or regions which need a sensible, comprehensive, and rational apporach to transportation matters.  I have often thought that New Haven to probably Wilmington and west to Harrisburg and north to Albany might fit such a plan; also Milwaukee-Chicago-St.Louis and Detroit or Cleveland...regional needs, not flag stops on the way.  Amtrak could be the "administrator", "overseeer", or "regulator"  but not the operator.  Getting it away from Congress is the trick.... <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] George the Inept?  Would that be George III or GW as in the founding father?  Or are you referring to one of the prides of Texas? By golly, it appears that we have common ground here.  I agree wholly with your views on this issue.  The Aussies, by the way, have done marvels by privatizing a significant portion of their intercity passenger rail system.  Moreover, as if not to be outdone, in Melbourne, where I lived for nearly five years, they privatized the commuter rail system, trams (streetcars), and local bus routes.  Whilst not perfect, they got a much better outcome than when the systems were run by a large, centralized government bureaucracy.
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