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<p>[quote user="V.Payne"]</p> <p>Boardman said... <span>But because Amtrak is not a policy-planning or a funding agency, he reiterated, only Congress or individual states can provide the funds and the programs to create a larger, busier passenger-train network. </span></p> <p><span>http://ccrail.com/amtrak-ceo-tells-chicago-audience-long-distance-trains-vital-but-union-station-needs-plans-funding-to-handle-more-trains-and-passengers/</span></p> <p>Yes, they plan but the role is not transportation policy planning as I take it.[/quote]</p> <p><strong>"Amtrak has contended they are not a planning organization." </strong>This comment is distinctly different from not being a policy-planning or funding agency. </p> <p>In the aforementioned context, airlines, bus companies, barge lines, etc. are not engaged in transportation policy planning. Nor should they be. However, they along with Amtrak can and probably do have a say at the table where transportation policy planning takes place.</p>
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