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		They now claim that the RPSA and their Basic Agreements with Amtrak gave them a contractual right to be free in perpetuity from any attempt by Congress to reimpose any common carrier obligations relating to passenger service.
		Under the RPSA and the Basic Agreement, a participating railroad was "relieved of all its responsibilities as a common carrier of passengers by rail" under the Interstate Commerce Act and state law (45 U.S.C. 561(a)).
		Congress clearly was not acting in an "arbitrary or irrational way" when it determined that the railroads should pay for at least a portion of the value of the free or reduced-rate transportation furnished to their employees and retirees and their dependents.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1984/sg840103.txt (7911 words)

	GAO-03-712T, Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues for Consideration in Developing an Intercity Passenger Rail Policy
		As we reported last year, intercity passenger rail has the potential to provide broad public benefits, such as stemming increases in highway and air congestion, reducing automobile pollution, and reducing fuel consumption and energy dependency.[Footnote 16] We pointed out, however, that some of these benefits might be difficult to obtain.
		For instance, for rail transport to capture the market share necessary to reduce air travel congestion, the distance between potential intercity passenger rail cities must be short enough to make rail travel times competitive with air travel times (at comparable costs and levels of comfort).
		The specific markets where intercity passenger rail has the most potential to generate public benefits by reducing highway congestion are regions where the highway systems are consistently operating beyond capacity and are characterized by slow moving traffic.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d03712t.html (7927 words)

	Brief Amtrak History
		To revitalize rail service, two things must happen: (1) Present downward trends of ridership and revenue must be reversed; and (2) Uneconomic services must be curtailed.
		The only viable means of insuring the survival and eventual expansion of intercity passenger service is to start out with a lean and muscular basic rail network, free of the duplicate services and hopelessly uneconomic routes, and the inevitable financial burdens they generate.
		Passenger car interiors and exteriors are being redesigned to permit easier boarding and exit as well as great comfort, safety, and convenience of passengers.
	www.amtrakhistoricalsociety.com /bah.htm (2168 words)

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		Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Interstate Commerce Commission is not empowered by Section 402(d) of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, 45 U.S.C. 562(d), to approve the condemnation by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) of railroad track that Amtrak intends to reconvey to another railroad.
		In the short-term, it disrupts Amtrak's Montrealer service through Vermont and squanders the resources invested in that venture; in the long-term, it hobbles Amtrak's negotiating position in reaching trackage-rights agreements with the nation's freight railroads, whose tracks were recognized by Congress to be indispensable to Amtrak's mission.
		The court of appeals concluded that RPSA's Section 402(d) was "unambiguous" in precluding Amtrak from condemning rail property for the purpose of conveying that property to another railroad.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900109.txt (5360 words)

	The Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Railroad officials argued that their passenger service was a primary contributor to their financial woes and that if they could eliminate such service, they would become profitable again.
		In addition, it authorized nearly $220 million over the 1980-1982 period for commuter service, for workers who lost their jobs or were reassigned to lower-paying jobs, and for payment of the principal of obligations guaranteed by the federal government.
		One rail expert has suggested that passenger rail probably reached its peak in terms of intercity travel in the mid-1890s, when its share of the market was estimated to be about 95 percent.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=4571&sequence=3 (5924 words)

	Policy Study No. 235 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the past two years, passenger revenues, adjusted for inflation, have generally declined, and in fiscal year 1996, the gap between operating deficits and federal operating subsidies began to grow again to levels exceeding those of fiscal year 1994, when the continuation of Amtrak’s nationwide service was threatened.
		For unprofitable rail service that must remain for social reasons, planners are lowering subsidy requirements through franchising or spinoffs to regional or local governments.
		Passenger traffic is up, revenues growth is strong, and complaints from riders to the Central Rail Users’ Consultative Committee have fallen for the first time in 15 years.
	www.rppi.org /transportation/ps235.html (9323 words)

	Two Centuries of Railroading
		During these years, the rail network grows from 35,000 to a peak of 254,000 miles in 1916.
		Railroads remain under private control during World War II and move on average twice the monthly volume of both freight and passengers as during World War I. Railroads enter the postwar era with a new sense of optimism that leads them to invest billions of dollars in new locomotives, freight equipment, and passenger trains.
		The Staggers Rail Act reduces the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulatory jurisdiction over railroads and sparks competition that stimulates advances in technology and a restructuring of the industry.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0855784.html (554 words)

	Opportunities to Improve Passenger Rail Service
		In addition to their poor performance on a per passenger loss basis, the number of passengers using Amtrak's intercity service has been flat since 1996, but down from 1994 and 1995 levels when Amtrak first began providing separate counts of intercity passenger volumes, as well as for west and east coast corridor travel.
		And while those arguing in favor of publicly-funded high speed rail often point to road and airport congestion as the compelling rationale for subsidizing a fourth mode of intercity transport, it would seem that the more cost effective and consumer preferred response to such congestion-related problems is to build more road and airport capacity.
		In reforming their inefficient rail systems, both Great Britain and Argentina adopted the "concession" or franchise approach under which the government maintains an ownership interest in the system but "sells" the right to operate service over specific routes for specific intervals of time.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Regulation/Test030702.cfm (2922 words)

	National R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Me. Corp., 503 U.S. 407 (1992). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Act permits Amtrak to enter into "trackage rights" agreements to use tracks owned and used by freight railroads, 45 U.S.C. (a); and allows Amtrak to ask petitioner Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to condemn railroad property "required for intercity rail passenger service" if Amtrak and the railroad cannot agree upon sale terms, § 562(d).
		Amtrak claims it was forced to discontinue this service because of B&M's poor maintenance of its track segment.
		Nonetheless, the court denied rehearing, holding that the condemnation was not valid because the property was not "required for intercity rail passenger service."
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/90-1419.ZS.html (802 words)

	Rail Passenger Service Restructuring, Reauthorization, and Development Act
		This Act may be cited as the `Rail Passenger Service Restructuring, Reauthorization, and Development Act'.
		`(11) Transportation services provided by the private freight railroads are vital to the economy and national defense and should not be disadvantaged by the operation of intercity passenger rail service over their rights-of-way.
		The responsibility of the American Passenger Railway Corporation under the preceding sentence, and the obligations for which it is responsible under that sentence, may not be transferred to any other entity in connection with such restructuring by contract or otherwise.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/s2306.html (10654 words)

	(CPC) Americans with Disabilities Act 230-241
		(4) Rail passenger car.--The term "rail passenger car" means, with respect to intercity rail transportation, single-level and bi-level coach cars, single-level and bi-level dining cars, single-level and bi-level sleeping cars, single-level and bi-level lounge cars, and food service cars.
		(B) in the case of a station more than 50 percent of which is owned by a private party, the persons providing intercity or commuter rail transportation to such station, as allocated on an equitable basis by regulation by the Secretary of Transportation; and
		(C) in a case where no party owns more than 50 percent of a station, the persons providing intercity or commuter rail transportation to such station and the owners of the station, other than private party owners, as allocated on an equitable basis by regulation by the Secretary of Transportation.
	www.cpconnection.com /ADALaws/S230-241.htm (203 words)

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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/rail_passenger_service_ac... (121 words)

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		1340, prohibited discontinuance of intercity rail passenger service other than in accordance with provisions of this chapter.
		415, directed National Railroad Passenger Corporation to develop design and engineering plans for rail corridors in consultation with Secretary and rail carriers owning facilities to be used in the corridors.
		417, related to provision of service between corridors to increase ridership.
	uscode.house.gov /download/pls/45C14.txt (1949 words)

	Amtrak Start-Up Press Release - Biographical Data
		Established by Congress under terms of the National Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, AMTRAK currently operates 185 trains weekly over 20,00 miles of track reaching approximately 325 cities and towns in the United States--or about 90 percent of the population.
		Established by Congress under terms of the National Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, AMTRAK currently operates 185 trains weekly over 20,000 miles of track reaching approximately 325 cities and towns in the United States--or about 90 percent of the population.
		Established by Congress under terms of the National Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, AMTRAK currently operates 185 trains weekly over 20,000 miles of track reaching approximately 325 cities and towns in the United States--or 90 percent of the population.
	www.amtrakhistoricalsociety.com /biostart.html (1267 words)

	(CPC) Americans with Disabilities Act 200-222
		(C) the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, and any commuter authority (as defined in section 103(8) of the Rail Passenger Service Act).
		Subject to the provisions of this title, no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.
		The remedies, procedures, and rights set forth in section 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794a) shall be the remedies, procedures, and rights this title provides to any person alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in violation of section 202.
	www.cpconnection.com /ADALaws/S200-222.htm (475 words)

	National Defense Rail Act
		(1) Financial investment in passenger rail infrastructure is critical, and Federal leadership is required to address the needs of a reliable, safe, secure passenger rail network, just as has been used in establishing the interstate highway system and the Federal aviation network.
		(3) Passenger rail is an integral part of the United States transportation system, and, as can be evidenced in the Northeast Corridor, relieves the pressures of congestion on highways and at airports, and creates a more balanced system of transportation alternatives.
		Within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, Amtrak, in consultation with the Comptroller General, shall develop a revised methodology to be used in preparing the annual operations report required by section 24315(a) of title 49, United States Code, beginning with the report on operations for fiscal year 2002.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/s104.html (9311 words)

	FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION : HOME
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		10/5/2005 Federal Railroad Administration Urges Safer Shipments of Time-Sensitive Hazardous Materials by Rail
	www.fra.dot.gov /us/home (124 words)

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