Comments on: Daily Transit Links Roundup http://metroriderla.com/2008/05/20/daily-transit-links-roundup-69/ los angeles transit oriented lifestyle Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cochon http://metroriderla.com/2008/05/20/daily-transit-links-roundup-69/comment-page-1/#comment-307361 cochon Tue, 20 May 2008 20:11:29 +0000 http://metroriderla.com/?p=1616#comment-307361 agreed, spokker. i take the train cross-country once a year and union pacific, csx and conrail are notorious for making amtrak trains hours late. bnsf is usually pretty good though. no one riding amtrak has any idea that if they aren't riding on the northeast corridor that amtrak is at the mercy of whichever railroad owns the tracks. agreed, spokker. i take the train cross-country once a year and union pacific, csx and conrail are notorious for making amtrak trains hours late. bnsf is usually pretty good though. no one riding amtrak has any idea that if they aren’t riding on the northeast corridor that amtrak is at the mercy of whichever railroad owns the tracks.

]]> By: Spokker http://metroriderla.com/2008/05/20/daily-transit-links-roundup-69/comment-page-1/#comment-307348 Spokker Tue, 20 May 2008 17:50:35 +0000 http://metroriderla.com/?p=1616#comment-307348 It's pretty clear that Amtrak's performance data isn't meant to help the consumer so much as it is to take the blame off of Amtrak and put it on its host railroads. That's not something I disagree with by the way. Here's one such example: "96.2% on CN - IC (Former GTW and IC) 3.8% on Amtrak" I guarantee that if it was the other way around, 96.2% on Amtrak, they would not be publishing this data. But it is good to see Amtrak defend itself. Perhaps something good will come of this. It’s pretty clear that Amtrak’s performance data isn’t meant to help the consumer so much as it is to take the blame off of Amtrak and put it on its host railroads. That’s not something I disagree with by the way.

Here’s one such example:
“96.2% on CN – IC (Former GTW and IC)
3.8% on Amtrak”

I guarantee that if it was the other way around, 96.2% on Amtrak, they would not be publishing this data. But it is good to see Amtrak defend itself. Perhaps something good will come of this.

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