Amtrak police use of passenger data

Re:Amtrak police use of passenger data by bmelton on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:09AM (#9250944)

Interesting, because the law demands that Amtrak get priority, to the extent that the railroads have sued Amtrak trying to reduce the strictness of the law, as they've been abusing it.

http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/frank-n-wilner/amt...

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Re:Amtrak police use of passenger data by hehaho on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:31AM (#9251080)

Hah. So, the thing is, Amtrak gets priority over freight trains so long as it is running according to schedule. Amtrak essentially never runs according to schedule -- many of its trains have 0% on-time performance -- so the freight trains end up getting priority, making Amtrak even later, and so on ad nauseam. Positive feedback loop.

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