This article, published by HeraldNet, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “We think that, with community support, we can do this,” said Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Center for Transportation and a former Snohomish County Councilman. The rest of the article can be found here.
This time the national passenger rail system, Amtrak, really is heading for a train wreck. So badly in debt is the public corporation that the General Accounting Office (GAO) and a host of other observers see it as functionally bankrupt. Congress and the Clinton Administration have been warned repeatedly of the need to plan ahead for the kind of privatization Read More ›
Budgetary choices that ask voters to decide between equally unpalatable alternatives are often unnecessary. With a bit of imagination, budget cuts can be therapeutic rather than painful. A good example is Amtrak. Do we really have to choose between losing passenger rail service and subsidizing a cripple Amtrak? The present budget fudges this question by phasing out the roughly $700 Read More ›